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20 Heller Dimbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dimbach (Municipality of Dimbach) |
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| Size | 89 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this Austrian Notgeld voucher (Gutschein) is printed in dark blue-grey on cream paper, centred on the municipal coat of arms of Dimbach — a heraldic shield bearing a swan with a ring in its beak, rendered in a fine line-engraved style. Flanking the central vignette are two symmetrical cartouches, each inscribed with the denomination and validity clause, while the numeral '20' appears in large decorative type at the lower left and lower right corners within elaborate foliate scroll borders. Two manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear in the lower centre, above the engraver's imprint 'H. Kepler'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured paper surface with a faint rectangular border impression visible near the edges, consistent with the lightweight paper stock used for this emergency currency issue. |
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Dimbach is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly minor municipalities, it issued Heller Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria following the First World War. These hyper-local issues were produced in tiny quantities, often on whatever paper stock was available to the local authority, with designs executed by hand or on simple office equipment. Dimbach's 20 Heller note is among the more obscure entries in the broader Austrian Notgeld corpus — no major auction records, no known printer attribution.
The shortage that prompted it was real and immediate: coin hoarding after 1914 left everyday transactions nearly impossible at the village level.