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20 Heller Altenmarkt
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Vorstehung Altenmarkt (Municipality of Altenmarkt, Styria) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Plain blue paper note bearing a handwritten denomination '20 Heller' in the upper right area, with a manuscript serial number at upper left. The centre is occupied by an oval official municipality stamp reading 'Gemeinde-Vorstehung Altenmarkt' with district and province indications, applied in dark ink. A manuscript authorization signature in ink appears in the lower portion, with a double underline rule beneath it. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on blue paper with no printed text, vignette, or ornamental elements; a faint handwritten numeral appears in the upper right corner, likely a collector's inventory notation. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld, issued during the severe coin shortage that followed World War One. Styrian villages like Altenmarkt were left functionally without small change as the imperial currency system collapsed, and local authorities were legally permitted — then practically compelled — to print their own fractional notes to keep commerce moving. The Heller denominations were among the smallest issued, filling the gap left by copper and nickel coins that had been hoarded or melted.
The Gemeinde-Vorstehung designation marks this as a municipal executive body rather than a commercial issuer — local notgeld of this type typically had no formal redemption guarantee beyond the goodwill of the issuing community.