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30 Heller St. Martin - Obermühl
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Martin im Mühlkreis (Municipality of St. Martin im Mühlkreis) |
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| Printer | L. Haase, Linz |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown with a central vignette in dark blue, the reverse presents a picturesque landscape scene of the Danube valley at Obermühl, with a riverside village set beneath steep wooded hills and a small boat on the water. The vignette is framed by an ornate red-brown border of grapevine leaves and tendrils, with scrollwork ribbon banners carrying the title 'Donautal Notgeld' at the top and 'Obermühl.' at the bottom, flanked by the denomination numeral '30' on each side. The printer's imprint 'L. Haase, Linz' appears at the lower right of the vignette, and '2. Auflage.' is noted below the lower left corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Donautal Notgeld Obermühl. 30 30 2. Auflage. L. Haase, Linz |
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One of thousands of Notgeld issues flooding Austria and Germany after 1914, when hoarding of metal coinage created acute small-change shortages that central authorities were too slow to address. Parish-level municipalities like St. Martin im Mühlkreis — a small community in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel — stepped in with their own emergency fractional paper, often in print runs small enough that survival rates are genuinely low.
L. Haase of Linz was a regional printer who handled numerous such commissions across Upper Austria, which accounts for the family resemblance between many Mühlviertel issues of this period.