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40 Heller Unterwolfern
| Issuer | Municipality of Unterwolfern (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Value | 40 Hellers (0.4) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue ink on cream paper, the note carries a central oval vignette of a wayside chapel or shrine set among trees, rendered in fine line engraving. The denomination numeral '40' appears in bold Gothic type at the upper left and upper right corners, with the word 'Heller' inscribed in Gothic script across the top centre. The issuer name 'Unterwolfern' is set in large, bold Gothic lettering across the lower portion of the note, framed by a dotted border running along all four edges. |
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| Reverse description | The plain cream reverse bears a text-only layout in a typeset serif font, with the edition notice 'I. Aufl.' (First Issue) at the upper right. The central body of text reads the redemption clause in German, and the note is authorised by the printed signature of the local mayor 'Johann Zwicklhuber' below the title 'Der Ortsvorsteher:'. |
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Unterwolfern is a small municipality in Upper Austria that, like hundreds of similar communities, issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortages of 1920–1921. These low-denomination Heller notes were a purely local stopgap — accepted at the parish shop, the mill, the inn — and most were redeemed and destroyed once the federal government restabilized small-change supply. Johann Zwicklhuber's signature as issuing authority places him almost certainly as the Bürgermeister at the time of issue, though the office held no monetary expertise; these were administrative acts, not banking ones.
Survival rates for rural Upper Austrian Notgeld are uneven. Village issues saw genuine daily use in a way that larger town issues did not, which shows in the paper.