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40 Heller Schwarzenthal
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Schwarzenthal |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-white stock printed entirely in red, with a double rule border at top and bottom enclosing the text field. The issuer's name 'Ortsgemeinde Schwarzenthal' is set in large serif capitals across the upper portion, below which the word 'Gutschein' appears in bold display type accompanied by a sawtooth ornamental rule. The denomination '40 HELLER' is printed in very large numerals and capitals to the right, while the left field carries the redemption deadline, an anti-counterfeiting warning, and the authority line of Ortsvorsteher Franz Zeilinger. |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Zeilinger |
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Schwarzenthal is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and like dozens of similar villages in the post-WWI period, it issued its own emergency paper — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation. The Austrian state had been melting and diverting metal since the war years, and by 1920 the shortage of fractional currency had become genuinely disruptive to daily commerce at the local level.
Franz Zeilinger's signature as issuing authority is the most individuating detail here. These hyperlocal issues were typically authorized and signed by the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal treasurer, and attribution to a named individual is often the only thread connecting the note to any recoverable local administrative record.