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20 Heller Aigen, Light green issue
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aigen (Ober-Steiermark) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Light green notgeld voucher with an elaborate letterpress border of stylised foliage and dotted rules framing a central vignette of a horse with a groom standing before a rural farm building. At the top, a decorative cartouche with scrollwork ribbon banners carries the denomination numeral '20' in red within a circular medallion, flanked by the inscription 'Heller' on each side. The lower centre bears the issuer legend in red Gothic script, with denomination panels '20 / Zwanzig / Heller' repeated in the lower left and right corners. |
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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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Aigen im Ennstal is a small market town in Upper Styria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Gemeinde series ran in several color variants, with the light green printing distinguishing this 20 Heller value within what was otherwise a functionally identical set of denominations.
Jaksch catalogues these Styrian municipal issues with particular attention to color differentiation, since the variants were not reissues but simultaneous parallel printings intended to reduce counterfeiting at the local level.