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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Neumarkt im Mühlkreis |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Heller (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain white paper, the obverse is framed by an ornamental border of diagonal hatching with scrollwork corner devices, surmounted by a ribbon banner bearing the issuer inscription. Two circular guilloche roundels flanking a bold central cartouche each carry the numeral 20, while between them the denomination legend "HELLER" is set in large gothic type. At centre, a circular municipal seal vignette encloses a church with bell tower encircled by the legend "S.A.M. NEWMARCKHT", with the guarantee clause distributed across flanking text panels and the Bürgermeister signature line with manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Die Gemeinde Neumarkt im Mühlkreise (Ob.-Öst.) gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 30.000 Kronen aus. Die Einlösung erfolgt in der Zeit vom 1. Juli bis 1. September 1920 bei der GemeindeKasse in Neumarkt in gesetzlichem Bargeld. Neumarkt, am 1. Mai 1920. Das Komitee: Nachmachung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Neumarkt im Mühlkreis is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 1920 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left the new republic chronically short of small change. Towns printed their own emergency scrip because the central government simply could not keep pace with the demand for low-denomination coins and notes — a situation that persisted well into the early 1920s before federal stabilization efforts took hold.
Locally printed Austrian Gemeinde Notgeld of this period varies considerably in paper quality and registration precision. The Neumarkt im Mühlkreis issues are among the more modestly produced examples from the Mühlviertel region.