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60 Heller Hofgastein
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Hofgastein (Market Town of Hofgastein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Upper portion occupied by a letterpress vignette of the Hofgastein townscape with a castle tower and timber farm buildings set against a wooded hillside, rendered in a bold woodcut style in dark brown. The lower panel carries the denomination text in a combination of black script and ochre lettering, with the numeral 60 printed twice in ochre at either side. A decorative border of alternating leaf and heart motifs in ochre frames the entire note. The designer's name REISENBICHLER appears in small type at the foot of the vignette panel. |
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| Signature(s) | Bachbauer (Bürgermeister) |
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Hofgastein's 60 Heller Notgeld was issued when the postwar collapse of Austria's monetary system left small denominations functionally unusable — hoarded, melted, or simply absent from circulation. Thousands of Austrian municipalities printed their own fractional paper in 1920, but Hofgastein's series, designed by a local hand named Reisenbichler and produced by B. Miesel in Salzburg, has a regional specificity that separates it from the mass-produced Notgeld churned out by larger printers for tourist collectors.
Bürgermeister Bachbauer's signature carries the municipal authority that made these notes legally binding within the community, if not beyond it.