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20 Heller Himberg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Himberg (Market Town of Himberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0374a-20 |
| Obverse description | Brown-toned notgeld issue printed in letterpress on plain paper. Three vignettes of local Himberg buildings — including a church and civic structures — are arranged across the upper portion of the note, framed within rectangular panels. The centre bears the municipal coat of arms within a shield set against a starburst underprint, flanked by the denomination numeral '20' at left and right; two manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and a town official appear at the foot, alongside the issuing authority inscription. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 HELLER GUTSCHEIN / DER MARKTGEMEINDE HIMBERG / ZEIT VON 45 - 30 APRIL 1920 IN ORTSÜBLICHEN BARZAHLUNGEN / DER BÜRGERMEISTER |
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Himberg is a small market town southeast of Vienna, and this 20 Heller notgeld is among the more obscure Austrian municipal emissions of the post-WWI period. These small-denomination local notes were printed to address the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy — the Heller itself would be abolished in 1925 when the Schilling replaced the Krone as the national currency.
The print date of 30 April 1945 recorded in the reference data almost certainly reflects a cataloguing or transcription anomaly, not the actual production date for a 1920 Heller note.