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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinden Gutau, Erdmannsdorf und Hundsdorf (Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Reverse description | Left panel carries a woodcut-style vignette of a church and surrounding buildings framed by tall timber posts, with the numeral '20' above and 'HELLER' below in bold block letters. The right panel, enclosed in a dotted border, bears a German text block stating the total issue of 30,000 Kronen, the authorising resolution date of 11/4.1920, and the redemption deadline of 31/12.1920, concluding with 'Gutau, 1/vi 1920'. The engraver's name 'Emil Prietzel Steur' appears in small italic script below the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 HELLER Die Gemeinden Gutau Erdmannsdorf Hundsdorf geben Gutscheine im Betrage von 30.000K aus G.R.B. vom 11/4.1920 Diese Scheine werden bis 31/12.1920 in gesetzl. Bargeldes eingelöst. Gutau, 1/vi 1920 Emil Prietzel Steur |
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This is a Notgeld issue — emergency small-change scrip produced by the combined municipalities of Gutau, Erdmannsdorf, and Hundsdorf in the Freistadt district of Upper Austria. The immediate trigger was the catastrophic coin shortage that plagued the former Habsburg successor states after 1918, when the old imperial Kronen coinage was hoarded or simply ceased to circulate in small denominations. Municipal and parish authorities across Austria issued their own Heller scrip as a stopgap, with no central coordination.
Emil Prietzel Steur's credit on a rural three-village issue is an unusual detail worth noting — most comparable Notgeld was unsigned work from provincial printers.