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60 Heller Oeblarn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oeblarn im Ennstale (Municipality of Oeblarn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Tan-toned notgeld printed in black, enclosed within a wavy-line border with ornate corner flourishes. A central oval vignette presents a view of the Oeblarn parish church with its distinctive onion-domed tower, flanked by tall poplar trees and surrounding village buildings. The denomination '60' appears in large bold numerals at upper left and upper right, with 'HELLER' set vertically along each lateral margin, and the issuing authority 'GEMEINDE OEBLARN IM ENNSTALE' inscribed across the top. The lower third is occupied by an elaborate symmetrical arabesque underprint panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE OEBLARN IM ENNSTALE 60 HELLER |
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Oeblarn is a small Styrian village in the Enns valley, and this 60 Heller note is one of the Notgeld issues that proliferated across rural Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The chronic coin shortage of the early postwar years forced municipalities down to the village level to print their own fractional emergency money — a situation the central authorities tolerated rather than sanctioned.
The Jaksc catalog reference places this firmly within the documented Styrian regional issues. Sixty Heller was an odd denomination by any standard, suggesting it was calculated against a specific local pricing need rather than issued as part of a tidy denominated series.