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60 Heller Admont
| Issuer | Market Town of Admont (Markt Admont) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0006b-60 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein des Marktes Admont. 60 Admont m. d. Buchstein. Hinaus in die Welt! doch nicht als Geld. Emil Prietzel, Steyr |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Sulzer (Bürgermeister), Friedrich Rauscher (Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter), and Josef Mayrhofer (Zahlmeister) |
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Admont is a small Styrian market town best known for its Benedictine monastery, but in 1920 the municipal government was doing something far more mundane: plugging the acute small-change shortage that plagued Austria in the immediate post-war years. The Austro-Hungarian monetary system had collapsed, coins had vanished from circulation through hoarding and metal recovery, and hundreds of Austrian municipalities printed their own Notgeld to fill the gap. Emil Prietzel in Steyr handled the presswork for this 60 Heller value, one of several denominations in the Admont series.
Three signatures authenticate the note — the Bürgermeister, his deputy, and the town cashier — a level of administrative formality that underscores how seriously even tiny communities treated these emergency issues.