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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Palting-Perwang (Municipality of Palting-Perwang, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet and black on plain cream paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative violet border of floral and dotted guilloche ornaments, with ribbon scrolls at the corners. A central black vignette presents a landscape view of the Edelsitz und Brauerei Mundenham estate, with farm buildings, a small chapel, and rolling hills beneath a billowing sky, executed in a woodcut-style print. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large black figures at the left and right, with the issuer name 'Gemeinde Palting-Perwang' in Gothic script across the upper portion; a designer's signature is visible in small script at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in violet on cream paper, with a dotted border running the full perimeter and a floral guilloche band across the top. At upper left, the denomination '20 Heller' is set in a decorative panel with an ornate floral side border in Gothic style, accompanied by the notation '2. Auflage' (2nd issue) at upper right. The main text body, in Fraktur script, states the municipality's guarantee of redemption from 15 to 31 March 1921 and a counterfeiting warning, followed by the place and date of issue and the mayor's signature line; the printer's imprint appears along the lower margin. |
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Palting-Perwang is a small parish commune in the Innviertel, the region Austria received from Bavaria only in 1779 — a detail that still shaped local identity in 1920. This note is Notgeld, issued because the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left ordinary municipalities scrambling to provide small-denomination currency for daily transactions. The Innviertel was particularly affected: geographically peripheral, economically thin, and far from Vienna's bureaucratic reach.
Josef Moser's print shop in Braunau am Inn served numerous local communes during this period. Bürgermeister Voggenberger's signature provides the note's sole claim to official authority — there was no banking institution behind it, just a municipal stamp and a local printer.