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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gutenbrunn (Municipality of Gutenbrunn-Heiligenkreuz, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a baroque monastery complex with bell tower, rendered in red and green letterpress by E. F. Hofecker. Issuer name 'Gutenbrunn = Heiligenkreuz' appears in Gothic script at upper right. Denomination '20 Heller Kassenschein 20' is printed in red Gothic lettering along the lower margin, with a decorative wave-pattern border framing the entire note. |
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| Signature(s) | Leopold Pfatter (1. Gemeinderat) and J. Wohrer (Bürgermeister) |
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Gutenbrunn-Heiligenkreuz was one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities that printed their own emergency small change — Notgeld — after the First World War, when coin disappeared almost entirely from circulation. This 20 Heller note is a product of that acute shortage, authorized locally and printed by a regional press in St. Pölten rather than any national authority. The designer credit to E. F. Hofecker is uncommon at this level; most rural Notgeld went unsigned by any artist.
Jaksc/Pick #0316 places this firmly within the Lower Austrian municipal series. Both signatories — the Bürgermeister Wohrer and Gemeinderat Pfatter — were local officials whose names gave the paper whatever credibility it held within the community.