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40 Heller Altenfelden
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altenfelden (Municipality of Altenfelden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold woodcut-style vignette of the Altenfelden village streetscape, with a prominent gabled building at left and further structures receding into a wooded hillside background, all enclosed within an ornate Art Nouveau border of foliate scrollwork. The issuer's name arcs across the top in capital letters. At the foot of the note, within a ruled panel, the denomination is stated in large capital lettering flanked by numerals, with the artist's signature inscribed at lower left of the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | GEMEINDE ALTENFELDEN O.Ö. 40 HELLER 40 |
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Altenfelden is a small market town in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel region, and this 40 Heller note is one of several denominations issued by the municipality during the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian towns between 1919 and 1921. The economic collapse following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary left local governments scrambling to fill a vacuum left by coin hoarding and near-total shortage of small change — Gemeinde Altenfelden printed its own solution.
Bernhard Derschmidt's involvement places this firmly in the locally-designed and locally-printed camp, distinct from the commercially produced Notgeld series printed by Vienna houses for tourist and collector markets.