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20 Heller Frankenburg
| Issuer | Municipality of Frankenburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 83 × 58 mm |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress Notgeld on white paper. At the top, a landscape vignette shows a panoramic view of Frankenburg am Hofberg with a church steeple amid conifers and rolling hills. Below the vignette, the denomination 'Zwanzig 20 Heller' is inscribed in Gothic script, followed by a text panel reading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Frankenburg' with the year 1920, a liability clause in German, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. The entire design is enclosed within a decorative border of floral corner ornaments and ruled lines. |
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| Obverse lettering | Frankenburg vom Hofberg Zwanzig 20 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Frankenburg 1920 Die Gemeinde Frankenburg haftet diesen Schein in gesetzlichen Bargeld einzulösen und hat hiehür eine eigene Deckungsanlage bestellt. Der Bürgermeister: Jos. Feichtingers Erben, Linz. |
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Frankenburg am Hausruck is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in the immediate postwar period, it issued its own Notgeld when small-denomination coinage simply ceased to circulate. The Habsburg monetary system had collapsed, Austrian state coin production was unable to keep pace with demand, and local governments filled the gap themselves. Jos. Feichtingers Erben was a well-established Linz printing house that produced a considerable volume of Upper Austrian municipal Notgeld during this period — workmanlike output, not prestige commissions.
Frankenburg carries its own grim historical footnote: the 1625 "Würfelspiel" — a forced dice game in which captured Protestant peasants gambled for their lives during the Counter-Reformation. Whether that notoriety influenced the town's design choices here is unrecorded.