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75 Heller Linz - Mittelstands-Wirtschafts-Genossenschaft
| Issuer | I. Mittelstands-Wirtschafts-Genossenschaft r.G.m.b.H., Linz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 75 Hellers (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in a folk-art letterpress style shows two figures in historical dress — a merchant and a craftsman — exchanging a handshake beneath oak branches bearing acorns, with a church spire visible in the background. At the base of the vignette sits the heraldic shield of the city of Linz flanked by the issuer's name above and the date "Linz, 21. April 1920" below. The denomination "75" appears in large underprint numerals at upper left and upper right, with the word "Heller" flanking the title text, and three manuscript signatures appear below for Der Kassier, Der Obmann, and Der Schriftführer. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-grey on a pale buff paper ground, with a central text panel enclosed within a decorative border of oak leaves and acorn sprigs rendered in green. The denomination numeral "75" with the word "Heller" appears in a bold outlined typeface at the left margin outside the panel. The panel contains a four-line patriotic verse quotation attributed to Schiller's Wilhelm Tell in a period Fraktur typeface. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type emerged from the acute small-coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918. The Mittelstands-Wirtschafts-Genossenschaft — roughly, a middle-class trading cooperative — was one of thousands of commercial and municipal bodies across Austria and Germany that filled the gap by issuing their own emergency fractions when the state simply couldn't supply enough low-denomination currency to keep retail trade moving.
Linz-issued cooperative Notgeld at the 75 Heller value is among the less frequently encountered denominations from this issuer, the 75 Heller slot being an awkward transitional value that many issuers skipped entirely.