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20 Heller Bad Hall
| Issuer | Kurort Bad Hall (Spa town of Bad Hall) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-gold tones on a plain paper ground. A central cartouche with ornate Art Nouveau scrollwork frames a line-engraved vignette of the Bad Hall Rathaus (town hall), with its prominent clock tower rising above a row of civic buildings and a large tree to the left; figures are visible at street level. The denomination '20 HELLER' appears in bold stylised lettering in the upper-left and upper-right corners, while a small tablet at the base of the cartouche bears the inscription 'RATHAUS' with the initials 'M. B.' below. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 HELLER RATHAUS M. B. |
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Bad Hall, a small Upper Austrian spa town whose iodine-rich saline springs were already drawing patients from across the Habsburg empire, issued emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. Municipalities across the former empire filled the vacuum left by vanishing metal coinage with locally printed scrip, and Bad Hall was among hundreds of small communities that did so.
The 20 Heller denomination places this squarely in the practical end of the Notgeld range — small enough to substitute for coins, not a collector piece by original intent.