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80 Heller Hinterbrühl
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hinterbrühl (Municipality of Hinterbrühl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN 1920 DER GEMEINDE HINTERBRÜHL BEI WIEN ÜBER ACHTZIG HELLER HOTEL FM. RADETZKY VIZE BÜRGERMEISTER: BÜRGERMEISTER: FINANZ REFERENT: 80 |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue on cream paper within a dotted decorative border, the reverse is divided into three vertical panels. The left and right panels carry extended German-language promotional text describing Hinterbrühl as a resort locality near Vienna, while the central panel contains a letterpress vignette of the ruined medieval Julienturm (Julien Tower), with the validity inscription 'Laufzeit bis 30. September 1920.' above it and the printer's imprint 'Wehhofers Erben Mödling.' below. |
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Hinterbrühl is a small village in Lower Austria best known as the site of the Seegrotte, the largest underground lake in Europe — but in 1920, it was also grappling with the same crisis that forced hundreds of Austrian municipalities to print their own small-denomination notes. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system created a catastrophic shortage of coin, and Notgeld like this 80 Heller piece filled the gap that Vienna could not.
Wehhofers Erben was a Mödling-based printer serving several local communities in the region, which accounts for the consistency in production quality across nearby issues. The 80 Heller denomination is among the less common face values in Austrian municipal Notgeld — most issuers favored round figures.