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80 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Freinberg (Municipality of Freinberg) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 80 Hellers (0.8) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a full-bleed woodcut-style vignette in olive-green and black, presenting a two-storey villa or municipal building set amid dense trees and garden grounds, rendered with fine cross-hatching to suggest depth and shadow. The denomination numeral '80' appears in each of the four corners against the light border. A lower banner panel contains the issuing office inscription in capital letters. |
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| Signature(s) | J. Neulinger |
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Freinberg is a small village in Upper Austria, near the German border at Passau, and this 80 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued between 1920 and 1922 — emergency municipal scrip produced because small-denomination coins had effectively vanished from circulation after the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Hundreds of Austrian communes issued their own, often producing elaborately printed series aimed partly at collectors even at the time of issue.
Albrecht serving as both printer and designer is characteristic of smaller provincial commissions, where a single regional firm handled the entire production. J. Neulinger's signature as municipal authority would have been the Bürgermeister or a designated financial officer of the Gemeinde.