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5 Heller Haid bei Mauthausen
| Issuer | Gemeindeamt Haid bei Mauthausen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 5 Heller Gemeinde Haid bei Mauthausen KRIEGSGEFANGENENFRIEDHOF |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser GUTSCHEIN ist unverzinslich und wird vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargelde beim Gemeindeamt Haid bei Mauthausen eingelöst. Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Haid bei Mauthausen is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and this 5 Heller Notgeld belongs to the vast wave of Austrian local emergency currency issued after World War One, when chronic small-coin shortages forced municipalities, businesses, and institutions to print their own. The Gemeindeamt — the local parish administration — was among the thousands of issuers who stepped in to fill that gap.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 in the reference data warrants scrutiny: that would place it on the final day of Hitler's life and within days of the war's end in that region, which is almost certainly a catalog or transcription error rather than a genuine reprint date for a 1920 Heller note.