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80 Heller Offenhausen

Issuer Gemeinde Offenhausen (Market Commune of Offenhausen)
Year 1920
Type Local banknote
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Reverse lettering Die Gemeinde Offenhausen / gibt auf Grund des Sitzungsbeschlusses / vom 11. Juli 1920 Gutscheine aus und / haftet für die Verbindlichkeit zur / Einlösung derselben mit ihrem / gesamten Vermögen. / Das Ende der Giltig- / keitsdauer wird / öffentl. ver- / lautbart. / Der Bürgermeister: / Johann Graf.
Signature(s) Johann Graf
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Offenhausen is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and this 80 Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept through Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1922. The collapse of the Habsburg economy left local governments scrambling to cover small-denomination shortages as the new republic's currency supply failed to reach rural communities in usable quantities. Communes issued their own paper not by legal right but by practical necessity — and sometimes by civic pride.

The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one, suggesting this was part of a set designed to produce round totals in combination with other values rather than to function independently.

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