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20 Heller Gilgenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gilgenberg (Municipality of Gilgenberg) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller der Gemeinde Gilgenberg Die Gemeinde Gilgenberg haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsanlage bestellt. — Einlösetermin wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. Der Bürgermeister: J. Hartl. Druck: Stampfl & Comp., Braunau. |
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| Reverse lettering | Alte Gerichtslinde in Gilgenberg o.Öst. |
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Gilgenberg am Weilhart is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from around 1916 onward. Wartime metal requisitions had effectively stripped small-denomination coinage from circulation, forcing local authorities to print their own substitutes. Stampfl & Comp. in nearby Braunau am Inn handled the physical production, which was common for smaller Upper Austrian communities who lacked access to major Vienna-based printers.
The designer credit to "v. Preen" is unusually specific for a rural commune issue of this kind — most village Notgeld went unsigned by any artistic hand.