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60 Heller Grödig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grödig (Municipality of Grödig) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note is occupied by a vignette illustrating a scene from the Untersberg legend, showing Emperor Charlemagne (Kaiser Karl d.G.) emerging with his army — a densely packed crowd of armoured soldiers rendered in an expressionist woodcut style against a blue ground. A caption panel below the vignette reads 'UNTERSBERGSAGEN / AUSZUG KAISER KARL D.G. / MIT SEINEM HEERBANN'. The right panel carries the issuer inscription and denomination in bold block lettering on a tan ground. |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion carries a vignette in the same expressionist woodcut manner, illustrating a scene from the Untersberg legends — a horse-drawn cart laden with barrels driven over a cobbled road, with a rider alongside, set against a blue ground. A caption panel below the vignette identifies the scene as 'UNTERSBERGSAGEN / DER WEINFUHRMANN / UND DER UNTERSBERGER'. The lower section bears the redemption text in bold lettering, with three manuscript facsimile signatures of municipal officials below their respective titles. |
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Grödig is a small municipality just south of Salzburg, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1920 was entirely typical of the Austrian municipal emergency currency wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. What is not typical is the printing date recorded here: 30 April 1945 — the last full day of Hitler's life, and a moment when the Third Reich was disintegrating around Salzburg. Whether this represents a genuine wartime reprint, a clerical misdating, or something stranger in the catalog record is worth examining before acquisition.