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20 Heller Berg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Berg im Attergau (Municipality of Berg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 1920 / 20 / 20 / GEMEINDE BERG / SALZKAMMERGUT-DRUCKEREI GMUNDEN |
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| Signature(s) | Anton Starzinger (Bürgermeister) and Anton Resch (II. Gemeinderat) and Anton Kroiß (I. Gemeinderat) |
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This note is a Notgeld issue, the Austrian emergency small-change currency that flooded the country after World War One when metal coinage effectively disappeared from circulation. Berg im Attergau is a small municipality in Upper Austria on the Attersee, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it printed its own fractional denominations simply to keep local commerce moving. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden was a regional press that handled numerous such commissions from surrounding lake-district parishes.
Three signatories — all bearing the surname Anton — authenticated each note by hand stamp and signature. A coincidence worth noting when examining authentication.