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20 Heller Haid bei Mauthausen
| Issuer | Industriegemeinde Haid bei Mauthausen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Buff-toned Notgeld note with a decorative ruled border enclosing the full text field. The denomination numeral '20' appears in bold blackletter type within ornamental cartouches at upper left and upper right. The issuer name 'der Industriegemeinde Haid bei Mauthausen' is set in Gothic script below the header, with the denomination 'Zwanzig Heller' rendered in a large red-printed blackletter display typeface. The central body carries a multi-line letterpress text in German detailing the authorising council resolution of 27 March 1920, the total issue amount, and the validity period, with three facsimile signature lines at the foot identifying the Bürgermeister and two Vizebürgermeister. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 |
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Haid bei Mauthausen was a small industrial commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities during the Kleingeldenot — the small-change famine that gripped Austria after the First World War — it issued its own emergency currency rather than wait for Vienna to solve a problem the central government was in no position to solve. The Haas printing house in Steyr, a regional workhorse for this type of municipal Notgeld, handled production for numerous Upper Austrian communities during this period, making attribution to a specific commune dependent almost entirely on the text rather than any distinctive print signature.
Three signatures — Koppler, Schauer, and Hannl — suggest a committee authorization, typical of industrial commune governance where no single official held sole financial authority.