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60 Heller Köstendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Köstendorf (Municipality of Köstendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper, the obverse is divided into two panels within a decorative border of fine parallel rules. The left panel contains an oval vignette of the local parish church with its characteristic onion-dome steeple, set within a floral patterned surround. The right panel carries the denomination numeral '60' within an oval guilloche cartouche surmounted by scroll ornaments, with 'Heller' inscribed below; the issuer name 'Gemeinde Köstendorf' appears in Gothic script above and the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung wird bestraft' below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Köstendorf Dieser Gutschein wird bis zum 1. Oktober 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst u. haftet die Gemeinde für die Einlösung mit ihrem Aktiv-Vermögen. (G.-R.-B. vom 25. Mai 1920.) Seb. Fuchs Gemeindevorsteher |
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Köstendorf is a small municipality in Salzburg province, and this 60 Heller note is one of the Austrian Notgeld issues that proliferated after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left rural communities scrambling for small change. The signature of Seb. Fuchs almost certainly represents a local official — Bürgermeister or treasurer — rather than a bank officer, which was entirely normal for emergency municipal issues of this period.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 is worth pausing on. That is the final day of the Third Reich in any meaningful sense — Hitler died that afternoon in Berlin. A Salzburg-province municipality still printing and signing local currency on that specific date is an odd footnote to an already chaotic monetary situation.