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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pischelsdorf (Municipality of Pischelsdorf, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#0752-20 |
| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper in dark brown ink, the obverse is framed by a decorative typographic border of interlocked rectangular ornaments. A woodcut-style panoramic vignette of the village of Pischelsdorf occupies the centre, showing rooftops, a church steeple, and rolling fields beneath a billowing clouded sky. Below the vignette, a text block carries the authorising statement and the mayoral signature printed in letterpress, with the printer's imprint 'Auer-Köbner' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Heller Das Ende der Giltigkeits-Dauer wird öffentlich verlautbart werden. Die Nachahmung dieser Scheine wird nach dem Gesetze bestraft. |
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Pischelsdorf's 20 Heller Notgeld was part of the broader Austrian municipal emergency currency wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918. With the central government unable to supply adequate small change, hundreds of Austrian communes — including tiny parishes like Pischelsdorf — were legally authorized to issue their own fractional notes. Auer & Köbner, a regional printer, handled production for numerous Upper Austrian municipalities during this period, which means the print quality across the series is consistent but undistinguished.
Franz Preiser's single signature reflects the minimal administrative apparatus of a small commune shouldering an essentially national problem.