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80 Heller Schärding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schärding (City of Schärding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | A solid outer border frames shield-shaped denomination panels inscribed '80 HELLER' at the upper left and upper right corners, with silhouetted armoured medieval sentinels standing guard in each side margin. The central vignette presents a detailed pen-and-ink style panoramic view of Schloss Schärding as it appeared in the fifteenth century, with towers, turrets, curtain walls, a gatehouse, and a drawbridge approach, captioned 'SCHLOSS / SCHÄRDING / IM XV. JAHRH.' and signed with the monogram 'HP.' of the artist at the lower right. A decorative cartouche at the foot encloses a two-line verse in Gothic letterpress script. |
| Reverse lettering | 80 HELLER SCHLOSS/SCHÄRDING/IM XV. JAHRH. Mit Turm vnd Wall / zeig ich die Zeit / Der schöneren Vergangenheit. |
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Schärding's 80 Heller notgeld sits in an awkward denomination — most Austrian municipal emergency issues clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller, with 80 being an outlier that suggests the issuing council was trying to cover a very specific change-making gap rather than following any provincial template. By 1920, Austria's postwar inflation was already eroding the purchasing power of smaller values, which partly explains the push into non-standard amounts.
J. Vees was a local printing firm, not a specialist security printer — purely a practical choice driven by wartime and postwar disruption to normal supply chains.