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20 Heller Adlwang
| Issuer | Gemeinde Adlwang (Municipality of Adlwang) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Adlwang Ober-Öster. Einlösetermin: 31. Dezemb. 1920 20 HELLER Die Gemeinde Adlwang haftet für die Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem gesamten Gemeinde-Vermögen. Nachahmung wird bestraft. Der Bürgermeister-Stellv. Der Bürgermeister. Emil Friesel Steyr |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress note on cream paper, enclosed within an elaborate lace-like decorative border with corner ornaments. A large central oval vignette presents a panoramic townscape view of Adlwang, with a church tower and village buildings set amid trees and vegetation. Above the vignette, the numeral '20' appears within a circular guilloche rosette, flanked by the inscription 'GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE ADLWANG' in bold capitals across the top. |
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Adlwang is a small parish commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to issuing its own emergency small change — Notgeld — when the postwar coin shortage became acute. This 20 Heller piece is one of several denominations printed locally by Emil Friesel in Steyr, a nearby market town with established printing infrastructure that supplied Notgeld to multiple Upper Austrian communities during this period.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this among the documented Austrian municipal issues, but Adlwang's series remains obscure enough that surviving examples rarely surface outside regional Austrian collections.