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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Imbach im Kremstal (Municipality of Imbach, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Left panel carries a letterpress vignette of the Imbach church with its tall Gothic tower set against a hillside landscape, captioned 'Gold-Ausgabe' above in olive-gold ink. Right panel bears the Gothic-script legend 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde Imbach im Kremstal' flanked by decorative square corner ornaments, with the denomination '20 Heller 20' in large type below a solid olive horizontal bar. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gold-Ausgabe Kassenschein der Gemeinde Imbach im Kremstal. 20 Heller 20 |
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Imbach is a village of a few hundred people, and in 1920 it was issuing its own money. This note belongs to the vast Austrian Notgeld phenomenon of 1919–1922, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal governments — including ones barely large enough to appear on regional maps — printing emergency small-denomination scrip to cover the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. The central government had neither the capacity nor the metal to fill the gap.
Jaksc 0404 is among the more obscure community issues in Lower Austria. Imbach's ecclesiastical history — it hosts one of the oldest Dominican convents in the German-speaking world, founded in 1269 — made it a known name to regional collectors, which probably sustained interest in an issue that would otherwise be a footnote.