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60 Heller Grödig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grödig (Municipality of Grödig) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 60 Hellers (0.6) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN D.GEMEINDE GRÖDIG ÜBER 60 HELLER UNTERSBERGSAGEN AUSZUG KAISER KARL D.G. MIT SEINEM HEERBANN |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same red and dark brown on buff stock, with an upper vignette in expressionist woodcut style showing a horse-drawn wagon loaded with barrels, driven by a figure and accompanied by another on foot, referencing the Untersberg legend of 'Der Weinfuhrmann und der Untersberger'. A red caption band below reads 'UNTERSBERGSAGEN / DER WEINFUHRMANN / UND DER UNTERSBERGER'. The lower section carries the redemption text in bold letterpress: 'DIE GEMEINDE GRÖDIG / LÖST DIESEN SCHEIN MIT / 31.12.1920. IN GES. WAHR. EIN', with three manuscript signature lines below for Gem. Rat., Bürgermeister, and Gem. Rat. officials. |
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Grödig is a small municipality just south of Salzburg, and this 60 Heller note belongs to the enormous wave of Austrian Notgeld issued in the immediate postwar years when small coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The hoarding of metal during the war and the economic chaos following the dissolution of the Habsburg empire created a genuine transactional vacuum — municipalities, businesses, and even individual estates printed their own emergency fractions to make change at all.
The Jaksch catalog reference places this firmly in the documented Salzburg provincial issues, a group that has been systematically catalogued precisely because the volume and variety were so large.