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20 Heller Brunn an der Erlauf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Brunn an der Erlauf (Municipality of Brunn an der Erlauf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a dotted rectangular border enclosing a hand-drawn vignette of a standing male figure in traditional costume holding aloft a large scroll inscribed with a text in Gothic script explaining the issuance of the Notgeld to alleviate the small-change shortage. To the lower left, the denomination 'Zwanzig Heller' is printed in large red Gothic numerals and text, accompanied by the validity line 'Giltig bis 31. Dez. 1920'. Below, two manuscript signature lines are provided for the Bürgermeister and the Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter, with the heading 'Gutschein' in decorative script at the top. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Achtung. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Brunn a/E. Gutscheine aus und löst diese Scheine bis 31. Dezember Zwanzig Heller 20 Giltig bis 31. Dez. 1920 Der Bürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister Stellv.: |
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Brunn an der Erlauf is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is one of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency issues printed during the postwar Heller coinage shortage of 1919–1921. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small-denomination metal currency effectively absent from circulation, forcing individual communes — some with populations under a thousand — to produce their own provisional Kleingeld.
The Jaksch classification covers hundreds of these Notgeld issues by Austrian municipalities. Survival rates vary sharply; some communes printed in very limited runs and distributed them only to local tradespeople.