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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altaist (Municipality of Altaist) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on salmon-pink paper, the central vignette presents a line-art illustration of a low rural farmhouse set among mature trees, rendered in a woodcut-like style and signed 'Karl Hayd' at the lower centre. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large bold type at the upper left and upper right corners, with the word 'Heller' lettered in decorative script across the lower portion of the note. A dotted and ornamental border frames the entire composition. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Altaist gibt diesen Gutschein zur Behebung der Kleingeldnot heraus und löst denselben bis 31. Dez. 1920 gegen gesetzliches Geld ein. GEMEINDEAMT ALTAIST polit. Bezirk Perg OB.-ÖST. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft 3. Auflage |
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Altaist is a small parish commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to issuing Notgeld during the postwar currency chaos — the central government simply could not produce small-denomination coins fast enough to meet everyday demand. This 20 Heller note is one of several values in the series, all printed by F. Kling in Linz-Urfahr, a printer that handled a significant volume of Upper Austrian municipal emergency issues during this period.
Karl Hayd's design credit is notably specific for a piece of this kind — most rural commune issues went uncredited.