Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
80 Heller Lebing
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lebing (Municipality of Lebing) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 80 80 80 GUTSCHEIN Heller |
| Reverse description | Text-only reverse printed in blue on plain paper, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border with the denomination numeral '80' repeated in plain square frames at each corner. The central text block, set in Gothic (Fraktur) script, carries the full legal declaration of the voucher, the issuing authority, the total issuance amount of 28,000 Kronen, and the redemption obligation at the municipal treasury. The date 'Lebing, am 3. Juni 1920' and the mayor's name appear below the main text, with an anti-counterfeiting warning along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Lebing is a small parish in Styria, and this 80 Heller note is a product of the postwar Austrian Notgeld wave — the municipal emergency currency issued across thousands of tiny communities when the collapsed Habsburg monetary system left villages effectively without small change. The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one, chosen to address specific local pricing needs rather than any standardized scheme.
Karl Neudarfer designed several Styrian Notgeld issues during this period, and the JPR0508a series from Lebing is among the more obscure entries in that regional output. Ohlinger's signature as Bürgermeister authenticates the issue as a genuine municipal instrument rather than a purely decorative souvenir piece — a distinction that matters for some of the more elaborate Notgeld from this era.