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2 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aigen (Market Town of Aigen, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 2 Hellers (0.02) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on tan cardboard in red and dark blue, the obverse is dominated by a large eye-shaped central vignette with a dark blue circular medallion at its centre bearing the bold numeral '2'. The inscription 'KASSENSCHEIN' arcs above the medallion within the vignette, flanked by the denomination 'HELLER' on both sides, with 'd. GEMEINDE AIGEN' curving below. A guilloche-patterned red underprint fills the background, with a series/number panel printed in black at the right margin; below the main vignette, a two-line redemption clause and an anti-counterfeiting warning are set in italic letterpress text. |
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| Protection type | Perforation |
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Aigen is a small market town in the Mühlviertel district of Upper Austria, and this 2 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued in 1920 when chronic small-coin shortages forced hundreds of municipalities to produce their own emergency fractional currency. By 1920 the Heller itself was nearly worthless in real terms — inflation had gutted the krone — yet the physical coins had vanished from circulation entirely, hoarded or melted, making even these trivial denominations necessary.
The perforation as a security feature is characteristic of locally produced Austrian Notgeld on cardboard stock, a simple mechanical authentication method available to a small municipal printer. Fr. Pfleger's signature gives this issue its administrative authority — likely the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal official at the time.