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40 Heller Spital am Pyhrn
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Spital am Pyhrn |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with text arranged in a bold Arts and Crafts-style typeface across the upper portion, reading the issuer name and denomination. Two square cartouches at lower left and right each bear the numeral '40', flanking a central text block stating the redemption date and the mayor's name. A vertical ornamental border of interlaced foliate scrollwork runs along the right edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | ORTS · GEMEINDE SPITAL · AM · PYHRN GUTSCHEIN · ÜBER VIERZIG HELLER DIE · EINLÖSUNG ERFOLGT ENDE DECEMBER 1920 BÜRGERMEISTER JOSEF GRUNDNER 40 40 |
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Spital am Pyhrn is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities it resorted to issuing Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from roughly 1919 onward. These locally-authorized emergency notes were produced in enormous variety across the country, with each municipality responsible for its own design, printing arrangement, and redemption — which is why survivability varies so wildly from one issuer to the next.
The single signature of Josef Grundner almost certainly represents the Bürgermeister at time of issue. The Jaksc/Pick reference places this firmly in the documented Austrian Notgeld corpus, but the "IIa" subvariant distinction typically reflects a paper or printing difference identifiable only on close comparison.