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30 Heller St. Gotthard
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Gotthard (Municipality of Sankt Gotthard, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress vignette occupying most of the reverse, presenting a detailed panoramic view of Schloss Eschelberg set on a wooded hillside, with a church tower visible among the castle buildings. The denomination 'Dreißig Heller' is inscribed in a banner cartouche at the top centre, with numeral '30' repeated in wreathed roundels at upper left and right. Two heraldic shields with baroque scrollwork flank the lower portion of the central vignette, and a ribbon scroll at the base carries the legend 'Schloss Eschelberg' with an attribution noting Kleinert, Ottensheim, 1920. |
| Reverse lettering | Dreißig Heller Schloss Eschelberg |
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A product of the Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the economic collapse of the First World War. Municipal governments across Austria issued their own small-denomination emergency money between roughly 1919 and 1922 because the central supply of low-value coinage had effectively ceased — hoarding, metal shortages, and runaway inflation had drained coins from everyday commerce entirely. St. Gotthard, a small Upper Austrian municipality, solved the problem the same way hundreds of others did: the Bürgermeister and his deputy signed off on locally printed scrip.
Freilinger's title — Vizebürgermeister — appearing alongside Sachsenhofer's on a 30-Heller note is a reminder of how granularly this crisis reached into local government.