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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aichkirchen (Municipality of Aichkirchen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on white paper, the note is framed by a decorative border of oak leaves and acorns in a folk-art style. The large numeral '20' forms the centrepiece of the upper portion, with a small oval vignette of a church tower set within the digit; flanking text in Fraktur script reads 'Gut-schein der Gemeinde Gemeinde'. The lower half carries the issuing municipality name 'Aichkirchen' in bold Fraktur lettering, with the subsidiary legend 'bei Lambach Ob. Oe.' below and the denomination '20 Heller' repeated at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on white paper, the reverse carries a double-rule rectangular border enclosing a full-text guarantee inscription in Fraktur script, stating that the Municipality of Aichkirchen undertakes to redeem the note in lawful currency between 1 January and 31 January 1921, signed by the Bürgermeister Kettlgruber. Below a decorative floral scroll vignette at lower left, a six-line dialect poem in praise of the local region is set in Fraktur type. The printer's imprint 'Jof. Feichtingers Erben, Linz' appears at the foot of the note. |
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Austrian municipal emergency currency — Notgeld — flooded the country after the First World War as chronic coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Aichkirchen, a village in Upper Austria, was among hundreds of communities that commissioned their own issues rather than wait for a central solution that was slow to materialize. Jof. Feichtingers Erben was a Linz printing house that handled a substantial share of Upper Austrian municipal Notgeld during this period, producing runs for numerous small communities across the region.
The single signature, Kettlgruber, almost certainly represents the sitting Bürgermeister at time of issue.