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20 Heller Altaist
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altaist (Municipality of Altaist) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0023a-20 |
| Obverse description | Pink-toned note printed in dark green, centred with an oval vignette of a rural farmhouse with chimneys and surrounding trees rendered in fine line illustration style. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large Gothic script at upper left and upper right corners, with the word 'Heller' in stylised lettering at lower left and lower right. The artist's name 'Karl Hayd' is inscribed below the vignette, and the printer's imprint 'DRUCK F. KLING, LINZ-URFAHR' appears at the lower right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Pink-toned note printed in dark green with a decorative border of repeating geometric and foliate ornaments enclosing the text. The heading 'Gemeinde Altaist' is set in large Gothic blackletter script across the top. Below, the body text in German states the issuing authority's declaration to redeem the note against legal tender to alleviate the shortage of small change, valid until 31 December 1920. A central oval official stamp reads 'GEMEINDEAMT ALTAIST, polit. Bezirk Perg, OB.-ÖST.' Three manuscript signatures appear below, attributed to the Bürgermeister and two Vizebürgermeister. An anti-counterfeiting warning and edition note '1. Auflage' appear at the foot. |
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One of the thousands of Austrian municipal emergency notes — Notgeld — issued in the chaotic years following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. Altaist is a small community in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of comparable parishes, it turned to locally printed scrip when coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The absence of the Bürgermeister's signature and the use of two Vizebürgermeister instead suggests the top position was vacant or disputed at the time of issue.
Printed by F. Kling in Linz-Urfahr, a press that handled numerous Upper Austrian Notgeld commissions during this period.