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70 Heller Vorderstoder
| Issuer | Gemeinde Vorderstoder (Municipality of Vorderstoder) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and purple Notgeld note printed in a decorative Jugendstil style, with the denomination numeral '70' in large purple Gothic figures at each corner. The central vignette is framed by a shaped cartouche embellished with stylised floral motifs — white blossoms and bell-shaped flowers on both lateral sides — against a green guilloche underprint. The face value 'Siebzig Heller' and the issuing authority legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Vorderstoder' appear in bold Gothic blackletter script, followed by a redemption clause text dated Vorderstoder, 30 Mai 1920, with four manuscript signatures of municipal officials below. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by a shield-shaped central vignette containing a finely engraved landscape view of the village of Vorderstoder, with a church steeple and alpine farmhouses set against a wooded hillside. The denomination numeral '70' appears in large white reserve figures within circular cartouches at left and right, all set against an intricate border of scrollwork and spiral ornamental elements that frame the entire composition. The year '1920' and an artist's signature are inscribed in small text at the lower margin of the central vignette. |
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Vorderstoder is a rural parish in Upper Austria with a population that barely cleared 500 in 1920. That a municipality this small issued its own emergency currency is less surprising than it sounds — Austria's postwar notgeld production was so decentralized that hundreds of villages printed their own heller denominations between 1919 and 1921, filling the vacuum left by coin hoarding and the collapse of the old imperial monetary system.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1120-70c distinguishes this from at least two other Vorderstoder heller values in the same series, confirming a multi-denomination local issue rather than a one-off stopgap.