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80 Heller St. Georgen im Attergau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Sankt Georgen im Attergau (Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Text panel enclosed within an oval floral border of stylised daisy garlands, flanked by four square cornerpieces each bearing the denomination '80'. Three signature lines for Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Kassier appear below the redemption text, with handwritten facsimile signatures. Anti-counterfeiting warning at foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Marktgemeinde St. Georgen i. A. O.Ö. gibt laut G.A. Beschluss vom 12. VI. 1920 Gutscheine im Betrage von 54.000 K aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: Der Kassier: Nachahmung wird bestraft. |
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St. Georgen im Attergau is a small market town on the western shore of the Attersee in Upper Austria, and this 80 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian currency system left small communities with an acute shortage of small-denomination coins, forcing local authorities — down to the level of individual market towns — to issue their own emergency scrip backed by nothing more than municipal credibility.
The 80 Heller denomination is slightly unusual; most Notgeld series clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller values, suggesting this was issued to fill a specific gap in local change-making rather than as part of a collector-oriented series.