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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hausmanning (Municipality of Hausmanning) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#0357lc-20 |
| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a double-line border and carries the heading GUTSCHEIN at top centre in bold Art Nouveau lettering. The central vignette, set within an arched panel bordered by a dotted inner frame, presents Saint George on horseback slaying a dragon; flanking landscape vignettes appear to either side. Denomination roundels inscribed 20 / Heller occupy the upper left and upper right corners, while the issuing authority legend DER GEMEINDE HAUSMANNING is set in large display type across the lower portion, with the regional abbreviation OBER. ÖSTER. above the central arch. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain cream paper with a faint ghost underprint of the obverse vignette visible through the stock. The field carries a four-line redemption notice in period Gothic typeface, followed by the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, printed in bold roman type, centred in the lower half of the note. |
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Hausmanning is a small village in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld emergency that swept through Austrian municipalities in 1920 — a period when chronic coin shortages, wartime disruption, and the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system forced even the smallest parishes and townships to print their own small-denomination scrip. Gemeinde Hausmanning's issues are among the more obscure in the Jaksch catalog, reflecting a genuinely local circulation that rarely extended beyond the immediate community.
Johann Dorninger's signature as issuing authority identifies him as the municipal official responsible — likely the Bürgermeister — lending the note its legal standing under the loosely regulated Notgeld framework of the early Austrian Republic.