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60 Heller Schärding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schärding |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The left panel carries a dotted-border vignette enclosing the municipal coat of arms of Schärding, rendered in letterpress with heraldic detail including a double-headed eagle and scissors. The right panel bears the issuer's title 'Stadtgemeinde Schärding a. I.' at the top, the denomination '60' set within a central framed box flanked by the word 'Heller' on each side, followed by the redemption clause, the resolution date of 30 April 1920, the issuing authority 'Die Stadtgemeindevertretung', and a counterfeit warning, all within a dotted border; the printer's imprint 'Druck: J. Vees, Schärding' appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels: the left panel bears the coat of arms of Bavaria (lozengy argent and azure) surmounted by a crowned lion, with the denomination '60 Heller' above; the central panel presents a line-art vignette of the Inn River bridge at Schärding, with a steam vessel below a dramatic sky, above a two-line poetic inscription; the right panel carries a second heraldic shield with a chequered field and scissors, topped by a helmeted eagle crest and the denomination '60 Heller', with the monogram 'H.P.' at lower right. |
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Schärding's 60 Heller Notgeld was among the wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Austria between 1920 and 1922, when the central government could not produce sufficient small-denomination coinage to meet everyday demand. Stadtgemeinde Schärding turned to the local printer J. Vees — a practical choice that kept costs down and turnaround fast, though it placed the design and presswork firmly in the hands of a commercial jobbing printer rather than a specialist banknote firm.
Printed and redeemable within the same small Inn-river border town, this note's circulation radius was almost certainly measured in city blocks.