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20 Heller Hinterbrühl
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hinterbrühl (Municipality of Hinterbrühl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green on cream paper, the obverse carries a central oval vignette with a letterpress illustration of a medieval stone tower ruin set among trees, enclosed within a rectangular frame with decorative floral border. The denomination numeral '20' appears in ornate octagonal cartouches at each corner, while Gothic script text blocks fill the left and right lateral panels. Signatures of municipal officials appear below the central vignette, with 'Zwanzig Heller' lettered in Gothic script along the lower margin flanking a 'Bürgermeister' signature box. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the reverse presents a rectangular vignette on the right half showing the Husarentempel — a neoclassical Greek-revival temple with a columned portico set on a rocky hillside amid trees, captioned 'HUSARENTEMPEL' above the image. The left portion of the note carries the redemption and anti-counterfeiting text in vertical orientation, dated Hinterbrühl, 25 April 1920, with the issuing authority signature of Wehhofer, Mödling. |
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Hinterbrühl is a small village in Lower Austria best known, if at all, for the Seegrotte — a flooded gypsum mine that became a Heinkel aircraft factory during the Second World War. In 1920, it was simply a minor municipality scrambling, like hundreds of Austrian communes, to address the acute small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The national currency had not yet stabilized, coin metal was being hoarded or had simply vanished from circulation, and local governments were legally permitted to issue their own emergency scrip under postwar Austrian Notgeld provisions.
The Jaksc suffix "Ie" places this within a recognized series variant — collectors should note that Hinterbrühl issues appear in several distinct printings, and the suffix distinctions matter for completeness.