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60 Heller Spital am Pyhrn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Spital am Pyhrn (Municipality of Spital am Pyhrn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 60 Hellers (0.6) |
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| Obverse description | Typographically bold Jugendstil letterpress design in brown-grey tones on cream paper, with the issuer and denomination inscribed in large decorative Art Nouveau lettering across the upper field: ORTS·GEMEINDE / SPITAL·AM·PYHRN / GUTSCHEIN·ÜBER / SECHZIG HELLER. A lower central panel carries the redemption notice and the name of Bürgermeister Josef Grundner, flanked on either side by diamond-shaped vignettes bearing the numeral 60. A tall ornamental border of interlaced foliate scrollwork in the Wiener Werkstätte style runs along the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | ORTS·GEMEINDE SPITAL·AM·PYHRN GUTSCHEIN·ÜBER SECHZIG HELLER DIE·EINLÖSUNG ERFOLGT·ENDE DECEMBER 1920 BÜRGERMEISTER JOSEF GRUNDNER |
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Spital am Pyhrn is a small mountain village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to address the acute coin shortage that persisted well after the armistice. The 60 Heller denomination is specific to this series and reflects local price realities of the period rather than any standardized national scheme.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly within the documented Austrian local Notgeld corpus, but Spital am Pyhrn issues are not among the widely traded tourist-oriented pieces produced by larger towns for collector sale. These were functional.