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20 Heller Helpfau-Uttendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Helpfau-Uttendorf (Municipality of Helpfau-Uttendorf) |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress Notgeld note set within a double-rule rectangular border, entirely typeset without pictorial vignette. The municipality name 'Gemeinde Helpfau=Uttendorf.' appears in large blackletter type at the head, with the bold numeral '20' at left and the voucher legend 'Gutschein über 20 Heller' centred on the same line. Below, the redemption clause, three signatories with their civic titles, a statutory counterfeiting warning, and the printer's imprint occupy successive lines in progressively smaller type. |
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| Reverse description | The central panel, enclosed within a ruled frame, presents a panoramic pen-and-ink townscape captioned as the market of Uttendorf with the Electoral castle as it appeared circa 1700. A sheaf of wheat fills the left margin and a hop vine the right, each flanking an octagonal cartouche bearing the denomination elements '20' at left and 'Heller' at right. The heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde' runs across the top and the community name 'Helpfau = Uttendorf' is set in bold blackletter type at the foot. |
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Helpfau-Uttendorf is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is one of thousands of municipal emergency issues — Notgeld — produced across Austria during the acute coin shortage of 1920. The printer, Josef Stampfl & Comp. operating under Leop. Höglinger in Braunau am Inn, handled a number of similar local commissions from the surrounding Inn Valley communities, making it a regional workhorse of small-denomination emergency paper.
Three signatories authenticated the issue: the Bürgermeister and both deputy mayors. That level of formal sign-off for a fractional note speaks to how seriously even small administrations treated their obligation to their local economies when metal coinage had all but vanished from circulation.