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30 Heller Stiftung

Issuer Gemeinde Stiftung bei Leonfelden
Year 1920
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Value 30 Hellers (0.3)
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Obverse description Printed in dark red-brown on cream paper, the obverse carries the issuer's name 'Gemeinde Stiftung bei Leonfelden' in Gothic lettering across the upper border. A central rural vignette illustrates a hay-laden ox-cart with a figure seated atop the load, set against a pastoral landscape; flanking lateral panels contain smaller vignettes of grazing sheep at left and poultry at right. The denomination '30' appears in large numerals at both lower corners, with 'Dreißig Heller' and a circular '30' medallion in the upper denomination panel, and the validity inscription 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920.' runs along the lower border.
Obverse lettering Gemeinde Stiftung bei Leonfelden
Dreißig 30 Heller
GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920.
30 30
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Leonfelden — today Bad Leonfelden, a small health resort town in Upper Austria near the Bohemian border — issued this Notgeld through its community foundation during the severe coin shortage that persisted in Austria well after the First World War ended. The Gemeinde Stiftung, a charitable municipal trust rather than a conventional municipal authority, is an unusual issuer even by the eclectic standards of Austrian Notgeld.

The Jaksch/Pick reference places this in a well-documented regional series, but foundation-issued pieces were never produced in large runs.

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