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30 Heller Tafelberg
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Tafelberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 30 Hellers (0.3) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper, the obverse is framed by an ornate border with floral and wave guilloche panels at the lateral extremities, each bearing the denomination '30 Heller' in bold letterpress. A central vignette rendered in a folk-art style presents a standing putto holding crossed sheaves of grain, with a bunch of grapes at its feet and small birds in flight to either side. The title 'GUTSCHEIN' appears in large capitals across the top, with the issuer legend 'ORTSGEMEINDE TAFELBERG' along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gutscheine werden auf Grund des Gemeindeausschußbeschlusses vom 23. Juli 1920 ausgegeben und bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Ortsvorsteher: MORAWETZ JOHANN Auflage II/2 |
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Tafelberg is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in the early 1920s, it issued its own Notgeld when the post-war coin shortage made everyday transactions nearly impossible. These local emergency notes were authorized under a framework that gave Austrian municipalities temporary latitude to print low-denomination scrip — the 30 Heller value sits squarely in the range intended to substitute for missing small change rather than to function as any kind of credit instrument.
Morawetz Johann's signature as the authorizing official is the primary accountability mechanism on the note. No central bank stood behind it.