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80 Heller Maria Laach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Maria Laach am Jauerling (Municipality of Maria Laach am Jauerling) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in dark carmine on white paper. The upper portion carries the issuer inscription in decorative hand-lettered typography, above a central vignette depicting a village landscape with a church steeple, rooftops, and a bare tree in the foreground, framed by stylised Art Nouveau flame and scroll ornaments on either side. Below the vignette, the denomination numeral '80' is set in large open figures flanked by the value '80h' repeated at lower left and right, with 'HELLER' inscribed beneath. Three facsimile signatures appear at the bottom with their respective titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | Mensch, laß untergeh'n des Geldes wechselnde Gestalten, Die laut und irrend durcheinander ziehn, Am inneren Leben läßt sich die Hoffnung halten, Wir bleiben, die Gestalten fliehen. 2. Serie. Jauerlinger Notgeld der Gemeinde Maria Laach am Jauerling über 80 Heller. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Einlösefrist 16. bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei persönlicher Vorweisung an der Gemeindekasse. |
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Maria Laach am Jauerling is a small Wachau-region municipality in Lower Austria, and this 80 Heller note belongs to the wave of Austrian Notgeld produced between 1919 and 1921 when coin shortages left local governments scrambling to manufacture their own small-denomination scrip. The three manuscript signatures — Senk, Frank, and Zellinger — indicate hand-signed authorization rather than facsimile printing, which was common for lower-volume rural issues and means no two examples are strictly identical.
The 80 Heller denomination is atypical. Most municipalities stuck to round figures; odd denominations like this usually reflect a specific local calculation tied to postal rates or market pricing at the time of issue.