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20 Heller Hartheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hartheim (Municipality of Hartheim) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on salmon-orange paper with an allover fine grid underprint in a slightly deeper tone. At the centre, a large circular ornamental vignette encloses the numeral '20' in stylised form, surrounded by a decorative border of scrolls and rosette devices in a lighter reserved tone, creating a watermark-like visual effect against the gridded ground. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 |
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Hartheim is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 1920 emission was a purely local necessity — small-denomination metal coinage had effectively vanished from everyday commerce, and municipalities were legally permitted to fill the gap with their own paper scrip.
The Baumayer and Moringer design credit is unusually specific for a village-level issue, suggesting a commissioned rather than generic design — common in the better-documented Notgeld series where local pride sometimes drove more considered artwork than strict utility required.