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40 Heller Ostermiething
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ostermiething (Municipality of Ostermiething) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the obverse is occupied by a colourful vignette in a folk-art style, signed by the artist K. Reisenbichler at lower left, showing a procession of women in traditional Upper Austrian Tracht — red and green dirndl dresses with white aprons — set against a dark background. The vignette is enclosed within a decorative border of stylised red and brown geometric motifs with circular medallions. Below, the denomination '40 Heller' appears in bold red letterpress at both left and right flanking the issuer name 'Ostermiething' in a central cartouche, with the printer's imprint 'Gedruckt bei R. Kiesel, Salzburg' in small text beneath. |
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| Obverse lettering | 40 Heller Ostermiething GEDRUCKT BEI R. KIESEL, SALZBURG |
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Ostermiething is a small market town in the Innviertel district of Upper Austria, and this 40 Heller Notgeld dates from the chaotic inflationary period following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. Austrian municipalities were effectively forced into printing their own small-denomination emergency money between 1919 and 1921 because the new republic could not produce sufficient coinage to meet everyday transactional demand. R. Kiesel of Salzburg was a regional printer responsible for a number of these municipal issues, and Reisenbichler's design credit is unusually specific for a piece of this type — most Notgeld from comparably sized communities went uncredited.