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60 Heller Grödig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grödig (Municipality of Grödig) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0290a-60 |
| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries a woodcut-style vignette in orange and dark brown illustrating a scene from the Untersberg legends: armoured Emperor Charlemagne emerging with his war host, a massed column of soldiers and banners rendered in bold expressionist linework. A caption panel below the vignette reads 'UNTERSBERGSAGEN / AUSZUG KAISER KARL D.G. / MIT SEINEM HEERBANN'. To the right, the issuer and denomination are set in heavy Gothic lettering: 'GUTSCHEIN / D. GEMEINDE / GRÖDIG / ÜBER / 60 / HELLER'. |
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| Reverse lettering | · UNTERSBERGSAGEN · DER WEINFUHRMANN UND DER UNTERSBERGER DIE GEMEINDE GRÖDIG LOST DIESEN SCHEIN MIT 31.12.1920. IN GES. WAHR. EIN GEM.RAT. BURGERM. GEM.RAT. Ruttinger Joo. Pichler Tasacher |
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Austrian Notgeld of the 1920–1921 period emerged from a genuine coin shortage — the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities across the former empire scrambling to issue their own fractional emergency money. Grödig, a small community just south of Salzburg, was one of hundreds of Gemeinden that participated, producing locally printed scrip to keep commerce moving at the village level.
The Jaksc catalog remains the primary reference for Austrian Notgeld, and the "a" suffix here indicates a distinct printing variant within the 60 Heller denomination — worth checking against the known color and paper differences that distinguish it from any subsequent issues.