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| Issuer | Gemeinde Leonding (Municipality of Leonding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN UEBER 50 HELLER D. GEMEINDE LEONDING |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Leonding über 50 Heller Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Leonding Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 35.000 Kronen aus. Dieselben sind unverzinslich und wird das Ende der Giltigkeitsdauer 4 Wochen vor der Einlösung verlautbart werden. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Den Bürgermeister: Gemeindeausschuß Gemeinderat: Hans Wunder |
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Leonding is a small market town just southwest of Linz — unremarkable in most respects, except that it was the childhood home of Adolf Hitler, a fact the town has spent decades navigating carefully. This note has nothing to do with that history; it predates any such association mattering to anyone. It belongs instead to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued after the First World War, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to produce their own small-denomination emergency currency to cover coin shortages.
Hans Wunder is credited as designer — a name that appears across several Upper Austrian municipal issues of the period, suggesting a local commercial artist working to order rather than a specialist printmaker.