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20 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Alkoven (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 75 x 55 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a hand-drawn illustrative vignette in the characteristic Austrian notgeld style, rendering a battle scene from the Upper Austrian Peasants' Revolt of 1626. The engagement in the Emlinger Forest on 9 November 1626 is identified by an inscription along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | KAMPF IM EMLINGER HOLZ AM 9. NOVEMBER 1626 |
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Alkoven is a small municipality in the Eferding district of Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian towns and villages following the economic collapse of the immediate postwar years. Municipal authorities across the former Habsburg lands issued their own emergency scrip between roughly 1919 and 1921 because the central supply of small-denomination coins had simply evaporated — hoarded, melted, or lost to wartime disruption.
Handler's design credit is unusually specific for a village-issue Notgeld; many comparable pieces from similarly small municipalities were produced anonymously by local printers.