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20 Heller Henhart
| Issuer | Gemeinde Henhart (Municipality of Henhart) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Henhart 20 Heller! Siz Hönhart OR. ME. SE. OC. |
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| Signature(s) | Aug. Müller |
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Henhart is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities across Austria in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage after the First World War. The Austrian state had no capacity to mint in sufficient volume, so municipalities stepped in. Most of these local issues had a circulation life measured in months before being officially withdrawn and redeemed.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0366a confirms this as part of the systematically catalogued Austrian municipal Notgeld series. Aug. Müller's signature as the authorizing official is the only personal record most of these village administrators left in any numismatic context.