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75 Heller Hundsberg
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Hundsberg (Municipality of Hundsberg, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper (tan/ochre) |
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| Obverse description | Plain tan paper Gutschein (emergency note) with all text set in letterpress within a decorative border composed of closely spaced vertical line segments forming a comb-like frame, with squared ornamental corners. The denomination 'fünfundsiebzig Heller' is set in large bold type at centre, above which 'GUTSCHEIN über' appears in mixed roman capitals and lower-case. Below, the text identifies the issuing authority 'Ortsgemeinde Hundsberg' and states the redemption obligation in lawful currency until 31 December 1920, together with a counterfeiting warning and the printed signature of the village head, Ortsvorsteher Adolf Breitschopf. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting the plain tan paper stock with a natural laid texture visible across the entire surface. No vignette, lettering, or underprint is present. |
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Hundsberg is a small village in the Vöcklabruck district, and this note is about as local as Austrian notgeld gets. The postwar collapse of small-denomination coinage forced even tiny rural municipalities to print their own emergency currency in 1920 — the Ortsgemeinde here acting entirely outside any formal banking structure, with the Ortsvorsteher signing notes essentially on his personal authority.
Breitschopf's signature as village headman is the only guarantee behind this piece. No bank, no treasury.