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| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Gröbming (Market Town of Gröbming) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 60 Hellers (0.6) |
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| Obverse lettering | 60 Siegel der alten Hoff-March Grebming Schön bist du und herrlich, mild und stark. Noch im Grabe weltaufbauend Leben Birgst du, hochgeliebte Steiermark! P.K. Rosegger Die Marktgemeinde Gröbming löst diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 1.-31. Dez. 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Giltig bis 31. Dez. 1920. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER STELLVERTRETER: |
| Reverse description | Brown and pale green on buff paper. The upper portion is occupied by a panoramic letterpress vignette of the town of Gröbming set in a snow-covered Alpine valley with a church steeple rising above the village rooftops and rolling mountains in the background. The lower panel, printed with a green underprint, carries the denomination "60 HELLER" in bold Gothic script at each lower corner, flanked by a zigzag ornamental border, with the central legend "Notgeld der Marktgemeinde Gröbming" in large display type. |
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Gröbming is a small market town in the Enns valley of Styria, and this 60 Heller note is a product of Austria's postwar Notgeld wave — the massive proliferation of locally issued emergency currency that flooded the country between roughly 1919 and 1921 as the successor states of the Habsburg empire struggled with coin shortages and monetary chaos. Hundreds of municipalities issued their own Heller denominations during this period, most printed in small runs on whatever paper stock was available locally.
The 60 Heller denomination is slightly unusual — most municipal issues clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller.