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80 Heller Bad Aussee
| Issuer | Marktgemeindevorstand Bad-Aussee (Market Town Council of Bad Aussee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 80 Hellers (0.8) |
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| Obverse lettering | 80 H. Giltig bis 31. Dez. 1920. Nachahmung strafbar. Marktgemeindevorst. Bad-Aussee. Der Bürgermeister: D. 1. Vicebürgerm.: D. 2. Vicebürgerm.: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in full colour with a central landscape vignette of the town of Bad Aussee set against the Styrian alpine massif, framed by a floral and tendril border in red and green. To the left stands a full-length figure of a Styrian huntsman in traditional Tracht, rifle in hand; a corresponding figure of a Styrian peasant in regional costume occupies the right side. The denomination '80 Heller' appears in bold blue letterpress in the upper corners, and a four-line verse in Styrian dialect is printed below the central vignette. |
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Bad Aussee's 80 Heller note is one of the thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues printed in the early 1920s to address the chronic small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Municipal and local bodies across the former empire were effectively left to fend for themselves, and the Marktgemeindevorstand here did what hundreds of comparable communities did — commissioned a local or regional printer to produce fractional notes the national banking apparatus could no longer supply.
Aug. Matthéy of Graz handled a considerable volume of Styrian municipal Notgeld during this period, which gives the note its regional character. The 80 Heller denomination is slightly unusual — most series gravitated toward rounder fractions.