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75 Heller
| Issuer | Commune of Firsching |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-pink and dark blue on cream paper, the note is arranged symmetrically with a central octagonal vignette of a rural village scene with a church steeple set among trees, executed in fine letterpress. Flanking the central vignette on either side are circular denomination cartouches bearing the numeral "75" over "Heller" in dark ink against a pale blue ground, each surrounded by decorative oak-leaf sprays. The issuer name "FIRSCHING" appears in bold capitals along the upper border, with "GUTSCHEIN" and "OBER-OESTER" inscribed along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIE EINLÖSUNG DIESES GUTSCHEINES IN GESETZL. BARGELDE ERFOLGT NACH VERLAUTBARUNG / NACHAHMUNG WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT DER ORTSVORSTEHER: FRANZ BRANDSTÄTTER Auflage II |
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Firsching is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly tiny municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. These hyperlocal issues were authorized under a general permissive framework, not by any central monetary authority, which is why the quality and survival rate vary so wildly from commune to commune.
Franz Brandstätter's signature as issuing official gives this note its only authentication. No bank, no treasury — just a village administrator's name standing in for institutional credibility.