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20 Heller Hellmonsödt
| Issuer | Hellmonsödt, Municipality of |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in brown on cream paper and is dominated by a split vignette: at left, a stone castle tower with an arched gateway and steps rendered in fine line engraving; at right, a panoramic view of the market town of Hellmonsödt with its church spire and surrounding fields. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in each corner, with the title inscription 'Gutschein der Gemeinde' in Gothic lettering across the top and the place name 'Hellmonsödt' in large ornate script at centre below. A decorative floral border frames the entire note, and the artist's signature 'L. Haase lith.' is visible in the lower right of the vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Hellmonsödt Die Gemeinde Hellmonsödt gibt Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 50000 K aus. Dieselben erlöschen nach öffentlich verlautbartem Endtermin. Serien No Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Hellmonsödt is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a piece of Notgeld — emergency municipal currency issued during the acute coin shortages that swept Austria from around 1920. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities printed their own small-denomination paper to fill the gap left by hoarded and melted coinage, and Hellmonsödt was one of them.
L. Haase's design credit is notable mainly because most village-level Notgeld of this type was farmed out to regional printers with no individual designer credited at all.