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20 Heller Attersee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Attersee (Municipality of Attersee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned Notgeld note with a central woodcut-style vignette of the Attersee village scene, showing a church tower rising above rustic rooftops and trees with figures in the foreground. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large circular medallions on both the left and right lateral panels, each framed by decorative Art Nouveau pearl-string borders. The issuer inscription and date run across the upper portion in Gothic lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein d. Gemeinde Attersee · die Gemeinde Attersee hastet laut Beschluss für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe, in gesetzlichen Bargelde einzulösen. · Die Nachahmung d. S. wird gesetzl. bestraft. · Der Bürgermeister: |
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Attersee is a small lakeside village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it was forced to print its own emergency small change — Notgeld — because the postwar coin shortage had left everyday commerce essentially paralyzed. The Gemeinde issued these Heller notes to cover transactions that federal currency simply couldn't, physically, handle. Druckerei P. Kling in Linz-Urfahr was a regional commercial printer that took on substantial municipal Notgeld work during this period, not a specialist security printer.
The JPR0060a designation places this within the Jaksch cataloguing of Austrian local issues — the suffix "a" typically indicating a variant within the Attersee emission.