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20 Heller Aurolzmünster
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aurolzmünster (Market Town of Aurolzmünster) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Violet-toned notgeld on a horizontally ruled background within a decorative border. At left, a vignette of a male portrait bust — labelled 'Graf Arco' — rendered in a linear woodcut style. To the right, the denomination numeral '20' appears in a framed box at upper centre, flanked by two blocks of Gothic-script text stating the issuing authority's obligation to redeem the note at face value in legal tender. The central legend 'Zwanzig Heller' is set in large blackletter type, below which the validity clause reads 'Giltig vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe,' followed by the anti-counterfeiting warning and the place-date 'Aurolzmünster, am 9.4.1920,' with the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Aurolzmünster 20 Heller |
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Aurolzmünster is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1922 — a direct consequence of the coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy and the redrawing of borders after 1918. Municipal authorities across the former crownlands, down to the smallest market towns, were effectively left to paper over the gap themselves.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0069a places this among the documented Upper Austrian series. Bitterer is credited as designer — a local hand rather than a commercial printing house, which is consistent with the cottage-industry character of much provincial Austrian Notgeld from this period.