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20 Heller
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Grieskirchen (City of Grieskirchen, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on blue-grey paper in dark brown letterpress throughout. A dotted guilloche border frames the note on all four sides. The numeral '20' appears in large bold type at the upper left, while the issuing authority 'Die Stadtgemeinde Grieskirchen' is set in Gothic blackletter script across the upper centre. The denomination 'Zwanzig Heller' is rendered in large display type at centre, beneath a redemption clause specifying validity from 1 to 15 October 1920, and the note is authenticated by the printed facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, Joh. Straßer. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Die Stadtgemeinde Grieskirchen löst diesen Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller vom 1. bis 15. Oktober 1920 in gesetz- lichem Bargeld ein. Der Bürgermeister: Joh. Straßer. |
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Grieskirchen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this note is a product of the severe coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal governments across the former empire scrambling to fill the gap left by vanishing small change — the result was an explosion of locally issued Notgeld in 1919 and 1920, printed by town councils, cooperatives, and individual merchants alike.
Bürgermeister Johann Straßer's signature gives the note its legal standing under Grieskirchen's municipal authority. Printed locally, the production quality reflects what small-town Austrian printers could manage under difficult postwar supply conditions.