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20 Heller Gunskirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gunskirchen (Municipality of Gunskirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress vignette on cream paper presenting a panoramic view of the Irnharting hamlet within the Gunskirchen municipality, with a tower-topped building at centre flanked by farmhouses and rendered in fine line engraving style. A bound sheaf of wheat occupies the left foreground, while flowering vine tendrils frame the entire composition. A circular inset at lower right contains a second architectural view. The denomination is displayed in a bold circular cartouche at centre bottom inscribed '20 HELLER'. |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Brandstätter |
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Gunskirchen is a small Upper Austrian municipality best known today — grimly — for the satellite camp of Mauthausen that operated on its outskirts in the final weeks of the war. This Heller note predates that by twenty-five years, issued during the Notgeld wave that followed Austria's post-WWI economic collapse, when municipalities across the country were forced to produce their own small-denomination scrip simply to keep local commerce functional.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog data almost certainly refers to a later archival or collector annotation, not the note's issue date — 1920 is the correct period for this series.