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20 Heller
| Issuer | Kirchdorf am Inn, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Typeset text note with ornate scrollwork border and circular guilloche panels bearing the numeral '20' at left and right. The denomination 'Zwanzig Heller' is set in large Gothic script across the centre, below the issuer designation 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Kirchdorf a/Inn'. A redemption clause in German script occupies the lower half, followed by a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Kirchdorf a/Inn Zwanzig Heller 20 Dieser Gutschein wird über Beschluß des Gemeindeausschußes im Sinne der erfolgten Kundmachung von der Gemeinde bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichen Bargeld eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: (Translation: This voucher will, by resolution of the municipal committee in accordance with the notice issued, be redeemed by the municipality by 31 December 1920 in legal tender. Counterfeiting of this note is punishable by law. The Mayor:) |
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Austrian municipal notgeld issued under the economic paralysis that followed the collapse of the Habsburg state. Kirchdorf am Inn is a small community in Upper Austria near the Bavarian border, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it was forced to produce its own small-denomination emergency scrip when coin disappeared from circulation entirely — hoarded, melted, or simply not minted in sufficient quantity by a government that had more pressing problems.
The 1920 dating places this in the second wave of Austrian notgeld, after the immediate postwar chaos and before hyperinflation made even these small values meaningless.