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20 Heller Altaist
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altaist (Municipality of Altaist) |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller Karl Hayd DRUCK F. KLING, LINZ-URFAHR |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Altaist gibt diesen Gutschein zur Behebung der Kleingeldnot heraus und löst denselben bis 31. Dez. 1920 gegen gesetzliches Geld ein GEMEINDEAMT ALTAIST polit. Bezirk Perg OB.-ÖST. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft 2. Auflage |
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Austrian municipal Notgeld of this type was born out of the acute small-change shortage that followed the First World War, when hoarding drained coins from everyday commerce almost entirely. Altaist, a small commune in Upper Austria, issued these Heller notes as a local stopgap — an arrangement that gave tiny municipalities an unexpected moment of administrative autonomy over their own money supply.
Three signatures were required for validity, which for a village-scale issuer was no formality: Bürgermeister Dielwinger and both Vizebürgermeisters signing together reflects the cautious legitimacy-building typical of first-time issuers with no banking infrastructure behind them. Printed by F. Kling in Linz-Urfahr, a press that handled numerous Upper Austrian municipal issues during this period.