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20 Heller Fischlham
| Issuer | Gemeinde Fischlham (Municipality of Fischlham) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette rendered in blue ink presents a landscape view of the Church of St. Peter in Fischlham, set amid trees and flanked by rural buildings, enclosed within an arched decorative border of foliate and guilloche ornament. The denomination numeral '20' appears in the upper left and upper right corners, with the word 'Heller' in Gothic blackletter script at the lower left and right. A scrolled cartouche at the base carries a two-line inscription in Gothic script identifying the church and its historical foundation. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller Kirche St. Peter in Fischlham erscheint urkundlich 1267 als selbständige Pfarre. |
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Fischlham is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued Heller notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. These locally authorized emergency issues were a direct consequence of metal hoarding and wartime metal requisitioning — small-denomination coins simply vanished from circulation, and municipalities stepped in to fill the gap with paper scrip redeemable only within the issuing community.
The Jaksch/Pick JPR series reference places this squarely in the documented Austrian notgeld corpus, though Fischlham issues are genuinely scarce in the market due to the village's small population and limited original print run.