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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ockert (Municipality of Ockert) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and yellow-cream letterpress Notgeld printed in the Jugendstil manner, with an ornate architectural border incorporating bearded mask corbels and fruit-laden pilasters at the sides. The central vignette presents a rural church with a pointed steeple set among trees, flanked by two unfurling scroll cartouches that frame the denomination "20 Heller" in Gothic script. The upper register carries the issuer legend "Gemeinde Ockert" in bold Gothic lettering, while the lower register contains the municipality's liability clause, validity date, and three facsimile signatures with their official titles. |
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| Signature(s) | Karl Schober (Geschäftsführender Gemeinderat), Franz Baier (Bürgermeister) and Franz Buchegger (Vizebürgermeister) |
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Ockert is a small locality in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg economy in 1918. The central government could not supply enough small-denomination coins to meet everyday transactional needs, so thousands of towns and parishes — many of them genuinely tiny — were formally authorized to print their own emergency scrip. Three signatories were required: the mayor, the deputy mayor, and the executive councillor, all of whom signed this issue.
The Jaksc catalogue reference 0702a places Ockert among the lesser-documented Lower Austrian issuers, and the 20 Heller denomination suggests this was intended for small retail use — bread, postage, tram fares.