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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 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Grünbach b.Freistadt HELLER 80 HELLER |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Grünbach Bez.Freistadt gibt auf Grund des Gemeindeausschuss-Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 16.Mai 1920 Notgeld aus, und haftet für die Einlösung mit ihrem Gesamtvermögen. Die Gutscheine werden in der Zeit vom 1-31.Jänner 1921 in gesetzlichen Bargelde eingelöst. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgerm.Stellvertreter. Der Bürgermeister. Leopold Fischerlehner Firklbauer |
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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.