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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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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed historical vignette rendered in a woodcut-like illustrative style printed in dark ink over a violet-purple underprint, centred on a bird's-eye view of Schloss Traun as it appeared circa 1600, with its multi-storey towers, onion domes, and ancillary buildings. To the left foreground stands a male figure in period dress beside a wheeled artillery cannon, while to the right a robed female figure is visible among foliage, evoking the castle's martial and historical character. Denomination roundels bearing the numeral 80 appear in the upper left and upper right corners, and the legend SCHLOSS TRAUN UM 1600 is inscribed across the upper margin; a continuous zigzag ornamental border frames the composition. |
| 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.