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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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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in red on cream paper, carries a rectangular vignette at left showing the Julienturm (Julien Tower), a medieval stone keep with a figure in the foreground, captioned 'JULIENTURM' at upper left. To the right, a block of Gothic-script text states the conditions of validity and the redemption deadline of 31 July 1920, signed and dated 'Hinterbrühl, am 25. April 1920'. A circular blue municipality seal of the Gemeinde Hinterbrühl, Mödling, is applied over the text, authenticating the note. |
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| Protection type | Official seal |
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Hinterbrühl is a small village in Lower Austria, southeast of Vienna, best known today as the site of the Seegrotte — a flooded gypsum mine. In 1920, like hundreds of other Austrian municipalities, it issued its own small-denomination Notgeld in response to the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 20 Heller denomination was among the most common for village issues, intended purely for local retail use and theoretically redeemable once normal coinage returned.
The official seal was the only security measure — a practical acknowledgment that counterfeiting a 20 Heller municipal scrip was economically pointless.