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80 Heller Traun
| Issuer | Gemeinde Traun (Municipality of Traun) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet-purple on a pale blue-grey ground, the obverse carries the title inscription GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE TRAUN across the upper portion in bold block lettering, flanked by two circular denomination cartouches bearing the numeral 80. The central field displays the large underprinted numeral 80 as an oversized vignette, with the spelled-out denomination ACHTZIG HELLER repeated to the left and right. The lower portion contains a multi-line legal guarantee text dated Traun, am 31. Mai 1920, signed by Bürgermeister Heinrich Gruber, with a warning against counterfeiting at the foot; the entire design is framed by a scalloped and geometric ornamental border. |
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| Reverse lettering | SCHLOSS TRAUN UM 1600 80 |
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Traun's 80 Heller note is a product of Austria's Notgeld wave, when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities printing their own emergency fractions because small-denomination coinage had essentially vanished from circulation. The Gemeinde Traun — a market town south of Linz in Upper Austria — issued these alongside other Heller denominations in 1920, the same year the Austrian crown was hemorrhaging value at a rate that made the entire exercise feel provisional from the start.
The 80 Heller face value is the slightly unusual one in most municipal series, chosen to fill a transactional gap rather than follow any conventional denomination logic.