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80 Heller Grünbach bei Freistadt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Grünbach bei Freistadt (Municipality of Grünbach bei Freistadt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 80 Hellers (0.8) |
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| Obverse description | A detailed letterpress vignette occupies the central field, presenting a panoramic view of the village of Grünbach with its church tower, farmhouses, and surrounding woodland under a clouded sky; a peasant figure is visible in the foreground at lower left. Decorative foliate branches frame both lateral margins, while the issuer's name 'Grünbach b. Freistadt' is inscribed in ornate Gothic script across the upper arc. The denomination '80' appears within a circle at the base, flanked on either side by the word 'HELLER' in capital letters, with the printer's credit 'L. Haase. Linz.' noted at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set within a decorative border of floral and foliate motifs rendered in letterpress. The entire field is occupied by a block of text in German Kurrent script, presenting the official redemption notice of the Gemeinde Grünbach, Bezirk Freistadt, referencing the municipal committee resolution of 16 May 1920, pledging the full assets of the municipality as guarantee, and stating that the notes are redeemable in legal tender between 1 and 31 January 1921. Below the text, the manuscript signatures of the deputy mayor and the mayor appear above their respective printed titles. |
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An Austrian Notgeld piece from the post-WWI period, when hundreds of small municipalities printed their own emergency fractional currency to address the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Grünbach bei Freistadt is a small Upper Austrian village; that a community of this size commissioned its own printed issue from a Linz printer — L. Haase — rather than handwriting or rubber-stamping a local solution reflects how organized and widespread the Notgeld system had become by 1920.
The dual signatures of the mayor Firklbauer and his deputy Leopold Fischerlehner are typical of the legitimizing formality these tiny issuances required to gain local acceptance.