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| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Haag am Hausruck (Market Town of Haag am Hausruck) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Two-colour letterpress note in purple and ochre. The left portion carries a central vignette of a town gate arch framing a view of a church steeple and market square, enclosed within a decorative purple border with foliate and heart motifs; denomination numerals '20' appear in the upper corners of the border. To the right, in Gothic blackletter script, the issuing authority and denomination inscription are set out vertically, with the large ochre numeral '20' and the word 'Heller' printed below; a vertical anti-counterfeiting warning text runs along the inner right edge of the vignette frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Marktgemeinde Haag am Hausruck hastet für die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines in ges. Geld mit ihrem beweglichen u. unbeweglichen Dermögen bis innerhalb vier Wochen nach Einberufung desselben. Gemeinde-Vorstehhung Haag a. Hausruck 27. März 1920 der Vizebürgermeister der Bürgermeister der Gemeinderat 20 Heller |
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Haag am Hausruck is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a piece of Notgeld — the emergency municipal scrip that flooded Austria between roughly 1919 and 1921 when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small denominations effectively absent from circulation. Thousands of Austrian towns issued their own, and the series varies wildly in quality and ambition.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 is almost certainly a catalog or transcription error — Austrian municipal Notgeld of this denomination had no reason to exist in the final days of World War II, and the 1920 issue year aligns with the documented Jaksc/Pick reference.