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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Garsten (Municipality of Garsten, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Garsten. Zwanzig Heller Die Gemeinde Garsten gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Betrage von 100.000 Kr. aus u. werden zwei Monate nach Ausgabe eingelöst. Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: Hans Friedl Der Vizebürgermeister: F. Kniszcan Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Emil Frietzel, Steyr. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Garsten 20 Heller 20 Heller |
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Garsten is a small municipality just outside Steyr, and this note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed rural Austrian commerce in the early postwar years. With the old Habsburg monetary system collapsing and coins vanishing from circulation almost entirely, hundreds of Austrian municipalities issued their own Notgeld between 1919 and 1921. Emil Frietzel was a local Steyr printer — not a security press — which is exactly what you would expect from a parish-level emergency issue.
The Heller denomination itself was already obsolescent by 1920; Austria would abolish it the following year when the Krone was reformed.