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20 Heller Alkoven
| Issuer | Gemeinde Alkoven (Municipality of Alkoven) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Alkoven über Zwanzig Heller Der Bürgermeister: J. Haselmayr Es muß seyn! Stöffl Gadinger Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft Gültig nur bis 31. Dezember 1920 Ent. v. K. Standler. |
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| Signature(s) | J. Haselmayr |
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Alkoven is a small Upper Austrian municipality roughly 20 kilometres west of Linz, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian towns and villages between 1919 and 1921. The postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left small denominations in acute shortage, forcing hundreds of municipalities to issue their own emergency scrip — legal in practice if not always in formal mandate.
K. Standler is not a widely documented designer in the Notgeld literature, suggesting local commission rather than one of the specialist print houses that handled bulk municipal orders. Signed by J. Haselmayr, almost certainly a local municipal official rather than a bank officer.