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40 Heller Haag

Issuer Marktgemeinde Haag, Niederösterreich
Year 1920
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Value 40 Hellers (0.4)
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Obverse description Typeset Notgeld note printed in black on pale grey speckled underprint, framed by a bold double-rule border with Art Nouveau corner ornaments. The denomination numeral '40' and the word 'Heller' are set in Gothic blackletter in the left panel, below which the validity clause 'Giltig bis 31. Dez. 1920' appears. The right panel carries the issuing authority title and the denomination spelled out in full in a large blackletter vignette, above the mayoral signature line.
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Reverse lettering Schloß Salaberg
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Haag N.-Ö.
40
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Austrian Notgeld from the immediate postwar period, when municipal and local authorities across the former Habsburg territories were forced to print their own small-denomination emergency money to address a chronic shortage of coins. The central government could not supply enough coinage to meet everyday transactional demand, and thousands of Gemeinden took matters into their own hands between roughly 1919 and 1921.

Haag am Hausruck is a small market town, and Buchdruckerei Edm. Huber was a local commercial printer — not a security press. These notes were produced on ordinary job-printing equipment, which is why ink strike and registration quality vary considerably across surviving examples.

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