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2 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Naarn (Municipality of Naarn, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 2 Hellers (0.02) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN 2 HELLER 1918 DER GEMEINDE NAARN |
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| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN der Gemeinde NAARN Die Gemeinde Naarn gibt Gutscheine aus bis zum Gesamtbetrage von 50.000 K und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein vier Wochen nach Ablauf des Endtermins vom 31. 12. 1920 einzulösen. Naarn, am 30. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Franz Dierneder. Auflage 400 Stück |
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Naarn is a small parish municipality on the south bank of the Danube, east of Linz. This 2 Heller note is a Notgeld issue — emergency scrip produced by thousands of Austrian communes after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left the new republic chronically short of small-denomination coinage. By 1920, municipal Notgeld had become so common that many issues were printed speculatively for collectors rather than genuine circulation need, though smaller Oberösterreich parishes like Naarn were generally issuing out of practical necessity rather than philatelic ambition.
Franz Dierneder's signature as issuing authority places administrative accountability at the local level — a deliberate feature of the scheme, since the national government accepted no liability for commune-issued scrip.