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20 Heller Allerheiligen, Brown obverse
| Issuer | Gemeinde Allerheiligen (Municipality of Allerheiligen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress vignette on a light ground, centred on a panoramic view of the village of Allerheiligen with its church steeple rising above a cluster of rural buildings set against a hatched sky. Flanking trees with floral ornamentation form the lateral borders, while two ribbon scrolls bearing the issuing authority text wind through the middle ground. Denomination numerals '20' appear in the upper left and upper right corners alongside the legend 'Heller', with the issuer name 'ALLERHEILIGEN' in bold block lettering within a panel at the foot of the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller Heller 20 GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE NACHMAHUNG WIRD BESTRAFT ALLERHEILIGEN |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this type was an entirely local solution to the small-change famine that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. By 1920, coins had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never replaced — and hundreds of Austrian parishes and villages printed their own emergency fractions to keep daily commerce moving. Allerheiligen was one of several hundred such communes, and Wiesinger's signature identifies a local official rather than any printing authority of note.
The series is common. Collector interest rests almost entirely on regional completeness rather than rarity.