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20 Heller Aigen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aigen (Ober-Steiermark) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0014e-20 |
| Obverse description | Salmon-toned Notgeld note with a decorative border of stylized foliage in green and red. A central vignette in dark ink presents a horse being held by a groom in front of a rustic farmstead with trees in the background. The denomination '20' appears in red within an ornamental cartouche at the top, flanked by ribbon banners inscribed 'Heller' on either side, while the lower portion carries the issuer inscription in Gothic script and the denomination repeated in two lower corner boxes. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Heller | Gutschein der Gemeinde Aigen Ober-Steiermark | 20 Heller Arbeit, Fortschritt und Verständnis Sind des Staates Fundament. Die Gemeinde Aigen (Ober-Steiermark) haftet laut Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 17. Juli 1920 dafür, diesen Schein 4 Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Aigen in der Obersteiermark is a small market commune in Styria, and like hundreds of comparable Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage during and after the First World War. These hyperlocal issues were often printed in tiny quantities by whatever press the commune could access, and survival rates vary enormously between denominations even within a single series.
The Jaksch reference places this within the broader Austrian Gemeinde Notgeld corpus. The 20 Heller denomination was among the most practically necessary, filling the gap left by the vanished 20 Heller coin.