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20 Heller Eggelsberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eggelsberg (Municipality of Eggelsberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and dark navy ink on cream paper, dominated by a central rectangular vignette of a Gothic church with surrounding trees and outbuildings, rendered in fine letterpress line work. The vignette is framed by a bold geometric Art Deco border of zigzag and triangular ray motifs extending to all four corners, with a stylized angular diamond device at the top centre. The denomination numeral '20' appears in a small panel below the vignette, and the issuer inscription runs along the lower margin in two lines of bold serif capitals. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE EGGELSBERG · OB · OEST· 20 |
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Eggelsberg is a small market municipality in Upper Austria, roughly 10 kilometers from Braunau am Inn. This note is a Notgeld issue — emergency small-change scrip produced by thousands of Austrian and German municipalities between 1919 and 1922 to address the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Imperial coinage system had collapsed with the Habsburg monarchy, and the new Austrian state was slow to fill the gap. Local governments, businesses, and even individual estates filled it themselves.
Printed by Josef Moser's press in nearby Braunau, the note required no long-distance logistics — practical for a village-scale issue with limited print runs and no expectation of wide circulation beyond the immediate community.