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20 Heller Herzogenburg
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in grey-violet on white paper, with an overall interlaced geometric guilloche underprint covering the entire field. The issuer name 'Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg.' appears in bold Fraktur script at the top, separated from the body by a horizontal rule, below which the word 'Gutschein' is set in large blackletter type. At centre, a circular red letterpress vignette bears an ornate interlaced monogram over the word 'über', flanked left and right by the denomination '20 Heller' in bold type, with 'Serie 2' printed in red at left; rows of perforated dots frame the denomination on three sides. A three-line redemption clause in Fraktur script occupies the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein für 20 Heller zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot herausgegeben von der Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg. Nachahmung wird gerichtlich verfolgt. |
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Herzogenburg is a small Augustinian market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the hyperlocal emergency currency wave that swept Austria during and immediately after the First World War. With the imperial monetary system under severe strain and coin hoarding endemic by 1916–1920, hundreds of Austrian municipalities and commercial printers issued their own Notgeld — and Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg printed their own, for their own community. The printer and issuer being the same entity is not unique, but it is telling: there was no intermediary, no bank, no civic authority with deeper resources.