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60 Heller Klaus
| Issuer | Gemeinde Klaus (Municipality of Klaus, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and brown letterpress Notgeld with an ornate Art Nouveau border of floral motifs and dotted vertical rules framing the design. A central oval vignette presents a panoramic landscape view of Klaus with a castle-crowned hillside above a valley with buildings and a river. Denomination "60 HELLER" appears in a cartouche at top and repeated at the foot, with the issuer legend arching above. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a typeset text block in German Fraktur script flanked by simple dotted and wavy-rule borders. The authorisation text references the municipal council resolution of 15 June 1920 and redemption conditions. Three manuscript signatures appear below, each above a printed role designation. |
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Klaus is a small municipality in the Steyr valley, and like hundreds of Austrian communes in the early 1920s, it issued its own Notgeld to compensate for the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The 60 Heller denomination is moderately unusual — most Gemeinde issues clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller — suggesting Klaus was filling a specific gap in local change rather than producing a full matching series.
F. Sertenberg's Vienna III workshop handled a substantial volume of small-commune Notgeld contracts during this period. Three signatories authenticated this note: the cashier and both the mayor and his deputy.