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| Issuer | Gemeinde Altaist (Municipality of Altaist) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Altaist gibt diesen Gutschein zur Behebung der Kleingeldnot heraus und löst denselben bis 31. Dez. 1920 gegen gesetzliches Geld ein. GEMEINDEAMT ALTAIST polit. Bezirk Perg OB.-ÖST. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft 2. Auflage |
| Signature(s) | Josef Hohrester (I. Vizebürgermeister), Joh. Dischinger (Bürgermeister), Mattäus Grübl (II. Vizebürgermeister) |
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Altaist is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communities after the First World War left the new republic's monetary system in pieces. Local governments printed their own emergency small-change notes because coins had effectively vanished — hoarded, melted, or simply never reminted in sufficient quantity after the collapse of the Habsburg economy.
The three signatures — Bürgermeister and both Vizebürgermeister — reflect a deliberate show of municipal authority on a piece of paper that had no legal standing beyond community trust. Druck A. Kling operated out of Linz-Urfahr, the northern bank suburb of Linz, a modest commercial printer doing what dozens of regional shops were doing in 1920.