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80 Heller
| Issuer | Land Oberösterreich (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black and red on plain paper in a dense letterpress style typical of Austrian Notgeld issues. A central cartouche with scrollwork surrounds the large numeral '80' in red, flanked by the inscriptions 'Achtzig' to the left and 'Heller' to the right. The surrounding dark underprint field is filled with an array of regional heraldic shields representing the districts of Upper Austria, with the prominent quartered coat of arms of Upper Austria centred at the top, and the issuer's name 'Gutschein des Landes Oberösterreich' rendered in Gothic script along the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein des Landes Oberösterreich Für die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines in gesetzlichem Bargelde durch die oberösterreichische Landeskasse bis zum öffentlich verlautbarten Einlösungstermin haftet das Land Oberösterreich. Linz, 21. Juni 1920 Die Nachahmung dieses Gutscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. 80 Heller |
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Upper Austria's regional emergency currency — Notgeld — emerged from the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire. By 1920, the new Austrian state simply could not mint small denominations fast enough to meet everyday commercial demand, so individual Länder, municipalities, and even private businesses issued their own paper fractional currency. Upper Austria's series was among the more systematically organized of these regional issues, produced locally in Linz rather than farmed out to Vienna or a foreign press.
The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one — a value that only makes sense in the context of Notgeld arithmetic, where issuers plugged gaps left by whatever coins had vanished from circulation.