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30 Heller Weinviertel
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Weinviertel |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and purple notgeld voucher with a central oval vignette showing a rural village scene with a church tower, farmhouses, and trees set against open fields. Decorative grape vine clusters frame the vignette on both sides, characteristic of the Weinviertel wine-growing region. Below the vignette, a scrolled ribbon cartouche carries the place name in Gothic lettering, flanked by the denomination '30 H' on each side, with the issuing authority legend printed in brown above. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-toned reverse with a faint ghost impression of the obverse vignette visible through the paper. The text, printed in brown, sets out the redemption terms and a counterfeiting warning, with the issuing mayor's name printed in larger capitals at the foot. The edition designation '2. Auflage I' appears at the lower right corner. |
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Austrian Notgeld of the post-WWI period, issued by a municipal authority in the Weinviertel wine-growing region of Lower Austria during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. These small-denomination emergency issues — heller notes in particular — were authorized locally and signed by a community official, here one Josef Schober, giving each note a quasi-personal authority entirely unlike standard central bank paper.
Weinviertel Notgeld of this denomination circulated alongside dozens of nearly identical issues from neighboring parishes, creating a chaotic but functional patchwork of hyperlocal currency that remained valid only within its issuing community.