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30 Heller Windischgarsten
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Windischgarsten (Market Municipality of Windischgarsten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet-lilac on cream paper, the obverse is dominated by a central oval vignette presenting a panoramic townscape of Windischgarsten with an alpine mountain range rising dramatically in the background. The denomination numeral '30' appears in circular cartouches at lower left and right, flanked by decorative wheat sheaf motifs at the outer edges. The legends 'GUTSCHEIN' appear in Gothic blackletter at upper left and right, with 'HELLER' inscribed centrally above the vignette, and 'MARKTGEMEINDE WINDISCHGARSTEN' set in large Gothic script along the lower margin; a secondary coupon at right repeats the value in words and bears a stylised heraldic shield vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN HELLER GUTSCHEIN 30 30 MARKTGEMEINDE WINDISCHGARSTEN Gutschein s: über :1 dreißig heller Marktgemeinde Windischgarsten |
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Windischgarsten is a small market town in the Pyhrn-Priel region of Upper Austria, and this 30 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency — Notgeld — issued between 1919 and 1921 when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities without usable small-denomination coins. Hundreds of Austrian Gemeinden printed their own, and the quality varied wildly; Windischgarsten's series was competently executed for a town of its size.
The Moser and Weidler credit suggests local or regional commercial printing rather than one of the specialist Viennese houses that handled the more elaborate collector-oriented Notgeld issues of the same period.