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20 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Gallspach (Municipality of Gallspach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on light blue paper, the left half of the note is dominated by an oval portrait vignette of Adam, Baron von Hoheneck (D. Adamus S.R.I. L.B. Baro ab Hoheneck), enclosed within a decorative cartouche with scrollwork, beneath which his Latin title inscription appears. To the right, a line-art vignette renders a street view of Gallspach's market square with a church steeple and surrounding townhouses, above which the denomination '20' is set in bold numerals flanked by the word 'Heller' on either side. The issuing authority is identified below in calligraphic script as 'Gutschein des Marktes Gallspach O.Ö.' |
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| 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: |
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Gallspach was an unremarkable Upper Austrian market town until the early 1920s, when it became briefly famous across the German-speaking world as the site of Valentine Zeileis's electromagnetic cancer cure — a quack medical sensation that drew thousands of desperate patients. The Notgeld issued here in 1920 predates that circus by a year or two, but it belongs to the same moment of provincial self-sufficiency: small communities printing their own small change because the central supply of coins had simply collapsed after the war.
The Jaksc catalogue number places this firmly within the Austrian Notgeld series, where Gallspach's issues are among the more obscure entries — low print runs, narrow local circulation, and no reason for outsiders to acquire them at the time.