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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Munderfing (Municipality of Munderfing) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld / Gemeinde Munderfing / 20 / Heller |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a single dark tone and centres on a large numeral '20' within an oval wreath of wheat or laurel branches. Flanking text panels carry the validity and redemption clauses of the Notgeld issue, with the issuing authority's designation and two manuscript signatures of municipal officials appearing in the lower portion. The word 'Heller' is inscribed at the upper left and upper right corners. |
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Munderfing is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system leaving the new Republic of German-Austria chronically short of small-denomination coins, thousands of towns and villages printed their own emergency fractional currency. Munderfing was one of the smaller issuers — its series receives little attention in the literature, and documented surviving examples are not abundant.
The Jaksch reference JPR0633a distinguishes the 20 Heller as a separate type within the local issue, implying at least one variant exists.