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20 Heller Herzogenburg
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0369IIIh-20 |
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| Obverse lettering | Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg. 2. Auflage Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller Serie 2 Dieser Gutschein wird im Verkehr mit unserer Kundschaft zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot ausgegeben und für obigen Betrag eingelöst. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by an overall green geometric underprint of interlocking hexagons, diamonds, and vertical bars forming a dense guilloche-style pattern across the entire field, enclosed within a black square-dashed border. At centre, a rectangular black-and-white photographic vignette reproduces a view of a local building — likely the Buchdruckerei or a prominent Herzogenburg structure — with trees and telegraph poles visible in the foreground. No inscriptions appear on the reverse. |
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Herzogenburg is a small Lower Austrian market town best known for its Augustinian monastery, and it was there that the local print shop — Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg — issued its own emergency small change during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the early years of the First World War. These Heller notes, sometimes called Notgeld or Kriegsnotgeld, were produced by the hundreds across Austrian municipalities when hoarding stripped copper and silver from everyday commerce almost overnight.
That the printer and issuer are the same entity is telling. No bank, no municipal authority — just the print shop vouching for its own paper.