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20 Heller Attnang – Puchheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Attnang-Puchheim (Municipality of Attnang-Puchheim) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde 20 Heller Attnang-Puchheim |
| Reverse description | Pink-tinted reverse with a guilloche underprint incorporating a large stylised monogram watermark-style medallion at centre right. To the left, a tall vignette in letterpress style portrays a winged allegorical female figure — a Nike or Victory — leaning against a spoked wheel and extending an olive branch. The main text block sets out the redemption terms in Gothic blackletter script, with two facsimile manuscript signatures below, identified by the printed titles 'Der Bürgermeister-Stellvertr.' and 'Der Bürgermeister', and a two-line verse motto in the upper right. |
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Attnang-Puchheim is a railway junction town in Upper Austria, and its Notgeld issues reflect the acute small-coin shortage that gripped Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Municipal authorities across the country were authorized to issue these emergency notes from 1919 onward precisely because the state could not supply enough fractional currency to keep local commerce moving.
H. Helminger's credit is unusually specific for a local Notgeld — most small-municipality issues went unattributed.