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20 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Gallspach (Municipality of Gallspach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue ink on cream paper and framed by an Art Nouveau-style border with stylised foliate corners, the reverse centres on a vase-shaped ornamental device surmounted by the municipal coat of arms — a shield bearing vertical stripes topped by an eagle. The denomination "Zwanzig Heller" is set in Gothic script to the left, with the issuer name and a redemption notice — stipulating exchange for legal tender four weeks after announcement — occupying the right field, followed by the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister and the date "1920" at foot. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 Heller Heller 20 Zwanzig Heller Gutschein des Marktes Gallspach o.ö. Diese Gutscheine werden 4 Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzl. Bargeld eingelöst. Der Bürgermeister: Strauß 1920 |
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Gallspach notgeld from this period was not merely a response to the postwar coin shortage — the town had become unusually prominent by 1920 due to the faith-healing phenomenon surrounding Valentin Zeileis, whose electromagnetic cancer treatments drew thousands of visitors and briefly made this small Upper Austrian market town internationally known. Whether that influx strained local small change supply more than elsewhere is plausible, though the municipal treasury's decision to issue its own scrip followed the same Austro-Hungarian successor-state pattern seen across hundreds of villages in 1920.
The Jaksc catalog remains the primary reference for Austrian municipal notgeld; Pick cross-references are secondary designations for the same issues.