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30 Heller St. Martin - Obermühl
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Martin im Mühlkreis (Municipality of St. Martin im Mühlkreis) |
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| Value | 30 Hellers (0.3) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on pale paper, the obverse carries a double-ruled rectangular border with decorative hatched side panels bearing repeating geometric and foliate motifs. The denomination numeral '30' appears in each corner, and the issuer's title 'Gemeinde St. Martin' is set in Gothic blackletter script across the top. The central text block bears the redemption obligation and the countersignature of the Bürgermeister, with the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung wird bestraft' along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Donautal Notgeld Obermühl. 30 30 2. Auflage. L. Haase, Linz |
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One of thousands of Notgeld issues flooding Austria and Germany after 1914, when hoarding of metal coinage created acute small-change shortages that central authorities were too slow to address. Parish-level municipalities like St. Martin im Mühlkreis — a small community in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel — stepped in with their own emergency fractional paper, often in print runs small enough that survival rates are genuinely low.
L. Haase of Linz was a regional printer who handled numerous such commissions across Upper Austria, which accounts for the family resemblance between many Mühlviertel issues of this period.