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30 Heller Vorderstoder
| Issuer | Gemeinde Vorderstoder (Municipality of Vorderstoder) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress Notgeld note with a rural vignette on the left half showing a rustic farmhouse or chapel beneath a large tree, surrounded by an ornate foliate border with heart motifs and scrollwork. The denomination numeral '30' appears in a bold oval cartouche at upper right, flanked by stylised heraldic bird devices at each corner, with the issuer name 'Gutschein d. Gemeinde Vorderstoder' in Gothic script below. The right half carries a block of Gothic text stating the municipality's redemption obligation, dated 30 Mai 1920, followed by four manuscript signatures of local officials. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue on plain cream paper and displays a geometric lattice underprint of repeating square and diagonal tile motifs covering the entire field. Two unbordered white rectangular panels are set into the lattice in a staggered arrangement, each carrying the denomination in large Gothic blackletter: 'Dreißig' on the upper panel and 'Heller' on the lower panel. |
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Vorderstoder is a small alpine commune in Upper Austria with a population that barely reached four figures in 1920. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during the postwar Notgeld period, it issued its own emergency small change to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation — a shortage driven by wartime metal requisitions and postwar hoarding that the Vienna authorities were slow to remedy.
The "b" variant designation in the Jaksch reference typically indicates a color or paper distinction from the primary issue, though both variants circulated concurrently in the same tight geographic area.