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80 Heller Viechtwang
| Issuer | Gemeinde Viechtwang (Municipality of Viechtwang) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 80 Hellers (0.8) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on plain paper with a decorative border of interlaced foliate motifs. The issuer's name "Gemeinde Viechtwang" is set in large Gothic script across the upper left, with the denomination numeral "80" appearing in the upper right corner and repeated at lower right. To the right, an oval vignette presents a letterpress view of the ruins of Scharnstein Castle set among conifers, captioned "RUINE SCHARNSTEIN" along the upper arc. The lower portion carries the municipal guarantee text in blackletter typeface, beneath which three facsimile signatures appear above their respective title labels. |
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| Reverse lettering | 80 BURG SCHÄRNSTAIN 1204 |
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Viechtwang is a small rural parish in Upper Austria, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1920 reflects how thoroughly the postwar coin shortage had penetrated even the most peripheral communities. Austria's copper and nickel had been consumed by the war economy, and the new republic inherited a fractured monetary supply that left municipal and even village governments printing their own small-denomination paper to keep local commerce moving.
The watermarked paper is notable for a note of this scale — most village-level Austrian notgeld of the period was printed on plain stock, with security features reserved for larger urban issues.