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60 Heller Klaus
| Issuer | Gemeinde Klaus (Municipality of Klaus) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 60 Hellers (0.6) |
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| Obverse description | Vertically oriented notgeld note printed in dark carmine-red on a pale blue-grey guilloche underprint. At the top, an oval cartouche bears the legend "GEMEINDE KLAUS" arching above a central numeral "60" in bold relief, with "HELLER" inscribed on a banner below; the cartouche is flanked by stylised Alpine flowers. The central vignette, set within a beaded oval frame, presents a detailed landscape view of the Klaus valley with buildings, forested slopes, and a dramatic rocky mountain backdrop rendered in fine letterpress engraving. A second denomination panel at the foot repeats "60 HELLER" within an ornate scrollwork surround. The notation "3. Auflage" (3rd issue) appears in the lower left margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Vogl (Kassier), Sommer Schiffler (Bürgermeister) and Julius Holzmüller (Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter) |
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Klaus is a small Vorarlberg municipality — the kind of community that issued Notgeld not because it had monetary ambitions but because small-denomination coinage had all but vanished from Austrian daily commerce by the early postwar years. The 60 Heller value is slightly unusual; most Gemeinde issues clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller, so this denomination suggests the municipality was trying to cover a specific transactional gap in local trade.
Three signatories — the cashier, the mayor, and the deputy mayor — reflects the administrative formality these tiny communes applied to what was, functionally, emergency scrip. F. Seitenberg's Vienna workshop printed a significant volume of Austrian municipal Notgeld during this period, and the Inh. K.W. Müller attribution indicates the firm was operating under new ownership by 1920.