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20 Heller Fraham
| Issuer | Gemeinde Fraham (Municipality of Fraham) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld für Fraham 20 Zwanzig Heller |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Fraham Gemeinde-Amt Fraham Pol. Bezirk Eferding Ob. Öst. 20 Heller Verschwunden ist jetzt Silber und Gold, Auch Nickel und Kupfer man nicht mehr findet Drum ward man auch hier dem Papiere hold — Hoffentlich es bald wieder verschwindet. Die Gemeinde Fraham haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Gutschein vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe im Gemeindeamte Fraham in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Fraham 15. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Fraham is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The 20 Heller denomination was among the most commonly needed in everyday transactions, which is precisely why municipal issues at this level proliferated so rapidly between 1919 and 1921.
The Jaksc reference places this within the documented Austrian local Notgeld corpus, but Fraham produced no series notable for printing quality or artistic ambition. Survivorship is high relative to actual rarity — collectors absorbed enormous quantities of these issues directly from municipalities at the time of issue, meaning many "circulated" notes never saw a single transaction.