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20 Heller Aigen
| Issuer | Municipality of Aigen (Upper Styria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a central vignette with a photographic-style scene of a figure standing beside two horses in a rural farmyard setting, enclosed within a decorative border of stylized foliage and geometric ornaments. The denomination numeral '20' appears at top centre within a circular guilloche cartouche, flanked by ribbon scrolls bearing the inscription 'Heller' on each side. Denomination panels reading '20 Zwanzig Heller' are set into the lower left and right corners, with the issuer legend in red Gothic script across the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 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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Austrian municipal notgeld from the early 1920s occupies a peculiar corner of paper money history. Following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, small change evaporated almost entirely from circulation — coins had been hoarded, melted, or simply stopped being minted in useful denominations. Hundreds of municipalities across the former imperial territories stepped in to fill the gap, issuing their own low-denomination emergency paper locally and often without any formal authorization from Vienna.
Aigen in Upper Styria was one of the smaller communities to do so. The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0014g designates the 20 Heller value within what appears to be a multi-denomination municipal series — the "g" suffix suggesting at least seven distinct issues from this issuer.