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20 Heller Bad Aussee
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Bad Aussee (Market Town of Bad Aussee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the obverse is occupied by the municipal coat of arms of Bad Aussee set within an ornate cartouche of scrollwork and foliate wings, the shield divided per fess and displaying two salt barrels above a trout on a grey field. To the right, the denomination '20 H.' is rendered in large blue decorative lettering at the top, below which the validity date and counterfeit warning are printed in German script, followed by the issuing authority designation 'Marktgemeindevorst. Bad-Aussee.' Three facsimile signatures appear at the foot, identified as the Bürgermeister and two deputy mayors. The overall ground is a fine diaper guilloche pattern in pale olive-green. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is framed by a decorative floral and foliate border in dark red and green. At the centre, a vignette presents a panoramic landscape view of Bad Aussee with a prominent church steeple and Alpine mountains rising behind the town; the issuing authority inscription 'Marktgemeinde Bad Aussee in Steiermark' is printed in red above the vignette. Flanking the central panel stand two full-length figures in traditional Styrian folk costume rendered in polychrome. A four-line dialect verse in Gothic script appears below the landscape, and the denomination '20 Heller' is repeated in red numerals in the upper corners. The printer's imprint 'Aug. Matthéy, Graz.' appears at the lower margin. |
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Bad Aussee's 20 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld produced after 1918, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local municipalities scrambling to cover the acute shortage of small-denomination coins. Market towns like Bad Aussee — a salt-mining community in the Styrian Salzkammergut — were authorized to issue their own emergency currency, printed locally and theoretically redeemable once the national supply stabilized.
Aug. Matthéy of Graz handled a considerable volume of Styrian municipal Notgeld during this period, which is precisely why condition variation across surviving examples tends to track to the paper stock used rather than to circulation wear.