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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hinterbrühl (Municipality of Hinterbrühl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on buff-coloured paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative floral border with the denomination numeral '20' in cartouches at upper left and lower corners. The central vignette presents a detailed letterpress illustration of a medieval tower ruin set amid trees and foliage. The title 'Kassenschein' appears in Gothic script at upper centre, flanked by the issuer inscription for the Gemeinde Hinterbrühl bei Wien and the value 'Zwanzig Heller' in Gothic lettering. Two facsimile signatures of municipal officials appear below the central vignette, with a third Bürgermeister signature at the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Gemeinde Hinterbrühl bei Wien Zwanzig Heller 20 BÜRGERMEISTER |
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Hinterbrühl is a small village in Lower Austria, best known — if known at all — as the site of the Seegrotte, a flooded gypsum mine that became an underground Heinkel He 162 assembly plant during World War II. In 1920, none of that was relevant. What was relevant was the catastrophic shortage of small change that swept Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Hundreds of municipalities, market towns, and even individual businesses issued their own Notgeld to fill the gap left by hoarded or simply nonexistent coins.
This 20 Heller note is one of several denominations Hinterbrühl put into local circulation. The Jaksc catalogue documents these Austrian municipal issues with a specificity that Pick alone does not cover.