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80 Heller Melk
| Issuer | Melk, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain paper within a decorative border of interlocking foliate motifs. The upper portion carries a multi-line philosophical text in Gothic Fraktur script attributed to 'Ing. Franz Walenta', followed by a redemption guarantee clause stating that the undersigned partners are liable for the exchange of the voucher into legal tender. Three handwritten signatures of the guarantors appear in the lower portion, with the printer's imprint 'HERMES, BUCH u. KUNSTDRUCKEREI WIEN XVII.' at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Die systematische Zerlegung der Arbeit in Funktionen und die zielbewußte Durchführung derselben nach den natürlichen Prinzipien der Gerechtigkeit, Ordnung und Ökonomie, muß unweigerlich zum allgemeinen Wohlstand der menschlichen Gesellschaft führen. Ing. Franz Walenta. Die unterfertigten Gesellschafter haften für die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines in gesetzlichem Bargelde. HERMES, BUCH u. KUNSTDRUCKEREI WIEN XVII. |
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Melk's 80 Heller Notgeld sits in an awkward denomination — not a round figure, not a natural division of the Krone, and clearly the product of a municipal cashier working out what gap needed filling rather than any coherent monetary plan. Austrian Notgeld of this period was issued in a flood between 1920 and 1922 as the postwar Krone collapsed and small change vanished entirely from circulation; hundreds of municipalities printed their own, Melk among them.
Hermes, operating out of Vienna's 17th district, handled a significant volume of provincial Notgeld work during this period. Walter Prinzl's involvement as designer is the detail that lifts this above anonymous jobbing print work.