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20 Heller Henhart
| Issuer | Gemeinde Henhart (Municipality of Henhart) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0366a-20 |
| Obverse description | The left panel carries the denomination inscription in bold blackletter Gothic script reading "Notgeld der Gemeinde Henhart" above the numeral "20" set within a ruled rectangular frame, flanked by ornamental rosette devices, with "Heller!" below. The right panel presents a detailed engraved townscape vignette of Henhart, with a church steeple and village buildings along a waterway, surmounted by a scroll banner inscribed "Siz Hönhart" and a heraldic shield to its right; a compass rose cartouche appears in the lower foreground. A light guilloche underprint is visible across the cream paper stock. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely text-based, set within a double-rule border with ornamental chain-pattern fillets at top and bottom. The denomination "Zwanzig Heller" is repeated four times in the header and footer bands flanking a decorative scroll ornament. The central field carries a redemption and legal text in blackletter script, with the denomination numerals "20" printed in the left and right margins. |
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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 Most of these local issues had a circulation life measured in months before being officially withdrawn and redeemed.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.