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40 Heller Oberwolfern
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Oberwolfern |
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| Value | 40 Hellers (0.4) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper Notgeld voucher printed entirely in dark red letterpress. The typeset text is centred within a decorative guilloche border composed of repeating scalloped and wavy rule elements with corner ornaments. The denomination is set in large bold Gothic type flanked by numeral repeaters, above the issuing authority and redemption date inscriptions. |
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| Signature(s) | Leopold Dorninger |
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Oberwolfern is a small village in Upper Austria, and this 40 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued from 1920 onward as postwar coin shortages forced even the smallest municipalities to print their own emergency small change. The Ortsgemeinde — the local parish council — bore legal responsibility for redemption, which in practice meant the mayor's office. Leopold Dorninger's signature here likely indicates the Bürgermeister or a designated communal official rather than any banking authority.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly in the catalogued regional series, but Oberwolfern issues remain genuinely scarce simply because so few were printed to begin with.