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20 Heller Aistersheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aistersheim (Municipality of Aistersheim) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same dark red-brown ink on cream paper within a multi-line rectangular frame with decorative scroll ornaments at the corners and sides. The central text block, set in a calligraphic hand, states the legal authority and redemption terms of the note, referencing the municipal council resolution of 25 May 1920 and the redemption period from 1 to 31 May 1921. The place and date 'Aistersheim, 15. Juni 1920' appear below the text block, followed by the printed signatures of the deputy mayor and the mayor, with the denomination numeral '20' repeated in octagonal roundels at each corner; a lower cartouche carries the anti-counterfeiting warning. |
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| Signature(s) | Karl Bointner and Alois Enser |
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Aistersheim is a village in Upper Austria with a population that barely cleared a few hundred in 1920 — which makes this 20 Heller Notgeld a reasonable artifact of just how atomized Austrian emergency currency issuance became after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Thousands of Austrian municipalities, some genuinely tiny, printed their own small-denomination notes to address the coin shortages that plagued the early republic. Aistersheim was among the smallest to do so.
The two signatories, Karl Bointner and Alois Enser, almost certainly held local administrative posts — Bürgermeister and a council deputy, most likely — though no wider record of either name surfaces in Austrian numismatic literature.