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20 Heller Eggenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eggenberg (Municipality of Eggenberg) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Light blue-grey Notgeld voucher with a central oval vignette of a farmer ploughing a field with a horse, a rural village and mountains visible in the background. The issuer inscription GEMEINDE EGGENBERG and sub-inscription BEZIRK VÖCKLABRUCK appear at the top, flanked on each side by the denomination numeral 20 and the legend HELLER in bold letterpress. Decorative guilloche rosettes and foliate scroll ornaments fill the lower portion, terminating in the word Gutschein rendered in ornate script lettering. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white reverse enclosed within a decorative typographic border of repeated ornamental units. The central text block, set in roman type, reads the guarantee clause of the municipality of Eggenberg pledging redemption of the note. Three manuscript signatures appear in the lower half beneath printed role designations: Der Bürgermeister at centre, Der I. Gemeinderat at lower left, and Der II. Gemeinderat at lower right. |
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Eggenberg was an independent municipality west of Graz until its absorption into the city in 1938. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during the Notgeld period of 1919–1921, it issued small-denomination paper emergency money to address the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 20 Heller denomination was among the most commonly struck values across the Steiermark issues — practical for everyday transactions when metal coinage had all but vanished from circulation.
The Jaksc catalogue remains the authoritative reference for Steiermark Notgeld, filling gaps the broader Pick system leaves unresolved for local Austrian issues.