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80 Heller Leonding
| Issuer | Gemeinde Leonding (Municipality of Leonding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a panoramic pen-and-ink style townscape of Leonding, with the parish church steeple rising above the rooftops against a clouded sky, set within a dark-bordered rectangular frame. A pink-toned decorative border with stylised tulip and bell-flower motifs in an Art Nouveau manner frames the entire note. The denomination '80' appears in a bold central cartouche at the foot, flanked by vertical panels inscribed 'HELLER' and by the issuer's name 'GEMEINDE' at left and 'LEONDING' at right in large white block lettering on a dark ground. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Leonding über 80 Heller Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Leonding Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 35.000 Kronen aus. Dieselben sind unverzinslich und wird das Ende der Gültigkeitsdauer 4 Wochen vor der Einlösung verlautbart werden. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister Gemeindeausschuß: Gemeinderat: |
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Leonding is a small market town west of Linz in Upper Austria — notable to historians primarily as the place where Adolf Hitler spent part of his adolescence, though that association postdates this note by two decades and has no bearing on it. This 80 Heller piece belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal notgeld issued after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities with no practical access to small-denomination coinage. The 80 Heller value is slightly unusual — most notgeld settled on round figures — suggesting the municipality was trying to fill a specific gap in local circulation rather than issuing for the collector trade.