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75 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Grossgstötten |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green notgeld printed in letterpress on plain paper, with a decorative border enclosing the issuer's name in bold capital letters at the top: 'GUTSCHEIN / DER ORTSGEMEINDE / GROSSGSTÖTTEN'. The central vignette presents a woodcut-style view of a village lane framed by timber-framed buildings, with a Baroque church tower visible in the background. Flanking the vignette on either side are ornamental panels with spiral guilloche motifs enclosing the numeral '75', with 'HELLER' inscribed at the lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-toned reverse within a fine dotted and scrollwork border, entirely typeset in black letterpress. The body text states the redemption terms and counterfeiting warning, followed by the facsimile signature of the Ortsvorsteher. Edition references 'Auflage' and 'Ausgabe' are printed at the lower left and lower right corners respectively, with a lightly printed watermark-style underprint of ornamental lettering visible in the background. |
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Grossgstötten is a small settlement in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. These local emergency issues were administered at the municipal level — the signature of Johann Bauer here almost certainly reflects the Bürgermeister or a designated communal official rather than a banking authority, since no banking infrastructure existed at this scale.
The 75 Heller denomination is slightly unusual within Austrian Notgeld — 10, 20, and 50 Heller were far more common fractional values, and the choice of 75 suggests a practical gap in local small-change availability rather than a standardized issue.