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80 Heller Kematen bei Wels
| Issuer | Kematen bei Wels, Market Town of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two panels within a wavy-edged border. The left panel contains a heraldic vignette of the market town's coat of arms set within an ornate architectural frame, accompanied by a handwritten-style historical text in German Gothic script commemorating the 300th anniversary of Kematen's elevation to market town status in 1620 under Emperor Ferdinand II, with the dates 1620 and 1920 at foot. The right panel bears a central oval vignette of the local church and market square, flanked on either side by the denomination numeral '80' and the currency unit 'Heller' in bold letterpress, with the title 'Jubiläums-Notgeld' at top, validity date 'gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' in the oval surround, and the issuing authority 'Markt-Verwaltung Kematen bei Wels' in large Gothic script at foot, alongside the facsimile signature of the Marktverwalter. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set within a decorative border of repeated leaf-and-branch motifs in dark ink. The entire field is occupied by a legal declaration in German Gothic blackletter script affirming that the market of Kematen bei Wels issues this Notgeld by resolution of the market committee of 6 June 1920 and guarantees redemption with its full active assets, followed by a counterfeiting warning. The facsimile signature of the Marktverwalter appears at lower right below the title 'Der Marktverwalter:'. |
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Austrian Notgeld of the early 1920s was a municipal free-for-all, and Kematen bei Wels participated like dozens of other Upper Austrian market towns — issuing small-denomination emergency scrip to cover the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 80 Heller denomination is one of the less common face values in the Kematen set, which makes it marginally harder to complete as a series than the more routinely issued 10 and 20 Heller pieces.
Collectors should note that the JPR cataloguing for Upper Austrian Notgeld has historically lumped together issues with subtle but real typographical variants.