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20 Heller Fischlham
| Issuer | Gemeinde Fischlham (Municipality of Fischlham) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set entirely in ornate Gothic blackletter calligraphy on a pale blue ground with a lightly printed decorative underprint. The main text occupies the upper three-quarters of the note, with a small rooster vignette at the lower left and an official circular municipal seal at the lower right. Below the main text, the title of the Bürgermeister appears in a smaller Gothic hand, followed by a manuscript signature. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Fischlham löst diesen Gutschein bis 1. Juli 1921 in gesetz- lichem Bargelde ein Der Bürgermeister |
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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.