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80 Heller Maria Laach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Maria Laach am Jauerling (Municipality of Maria Laach am Jauerling) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0584a-80 |
| Obverse description | Printed in red-orange on white paper, the obverse carries the legend GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE MARIALAACH AM JAUERLING in bold Art Nouveau lettering across the upper field. A central rectangular vignette, signed by the artist K. Rohhofer in the lower left corner, presents a line-drawn winter village scene with a bare tree in the foreground and a church tower among snow-covered rooftops. Below the vignette, the denomination numeral 80 is set in large double-outlined figures flanked by ornamental flame-like scrollwork, with HELLER inscribed beneath and the denomination repeated as 80h at both lower corners. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red-orange on white paper and is entirely typographic in character. Four lines of German verse in Fraktur script occupy the upper portion, followed by the series designation 1. Serie. The central text in bold Fraktur reads Jauerlinger Notgeld, with a subtitle line der Gemeinde Maria Laach am Jauerling and the value über 80 Heller. Validity and redemption conditions are stated below in two further lines of Fraktur text, specifying the validity date of 31 December 1920 and the redemption period of 16 to 31 December 1920 at the municipal treasury. |
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Maria Laach am Jauerling is a small wine-growing commune in Lower Austria's Wachau hinterland, and this 80 Heller Notgeld is one of the more arithmetically awkward denominations that emerged from the acute coin shortage following Austria's defeat in the First World War. The 80 Heller value — neither a round figure nor a standard pre-war coin denomination — reflects how desperate local authorities were to plug gaps in everyday small transactions, issuing whatever values commerce actually required rather than what the mint had historically produced.
K. Rohhofer's design credit places this among the locally commissioned rather than commercially templated issues. Three signatures authenticate it: the mayor (Bgm.), his deputy, and a council member — the full civic quorum that gave these municipal scrip issues their legal weight under Austrian emergency provisions of 1919–1920.