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60 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dietrichschlag bei Leonfelden |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 HELLER GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE DIETRICHSCHLAG |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse printed entirely in green, carrying the full redemption text in German. The heading reads "Gutschein der Gemeinde Dietrichsschlag." followed by a paragraph stating that the municipal authority of Dietrichschlag bei Leonfelden, Upper Austria, issues these emergency notes to alleviate the small-change shortage and guarantees their redemption, with validity expiring on 30 November 1920 and exchange at the Gemeindekasse between 15 and 30 November. A counterfeiting warning appears below, followed by three facsimile manuscript signatures with their respective official titles, and the printer's imprint "F. KLING, URFAHR" at the foot. |
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Dietrichschlag bei Leonfelden is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and this 60 Heller Notgeld is exactly the kind of hyperlocal emergency scrip that flooded the Austrian countryside after the collapse of the Habsburg economy. F. Kling operated out of Urfahr — then a separate town across the Danube from Linz, only incorporated into Linz in 1919 — making this note a product of a printer who was himself operating in a place mid-transition between municipal identities.
The Heller denomination was already becoming economically marginal by 1920, as postwar inflation eroded small-coin purchasing power rapidly.