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20 Heller Hinterstoder
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hinterstoder (Municipality of Hinterstoder) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld voucher with two distinct vertical panels: the left panel carries a woodcut-style Alpine landscape vignette with craggy mountain peaks, conifers, and an elevation inscription, flanked by denomination numerals '20' at the lower corners. The right panel presents the denomination '20 HELLER' in large Gothic script at upper right, followed by the issuing authority text, the issue date '14. August 1920', and the manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse description | Plain green letterpress reverse framed by decorative vertical borders of interlocking geometric and circular guilloche patterns along both side margins. The central text field, set in German Gothic script, carries the full legal notice of issuance, the municipality's liability clause, and the redemption period of 1 to 31 December 1920, concluding with a statutory anti-counterfeiting warning. The printer's imprint of Jos. Feichtingers Erben, Linz appears at the foot. |
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Hinterstoder is a small Alpine village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. These local emergency issues were administered at the community level, which is why a single Bürgermeister signature — here Hans Flache — was sufficient to validate the note. Jos. Feichtingers Erben was a well-established Linz printing house that handled a significant volume of Upper Austrian municipal Notgeld during this period, producing notes for dozens of small communities across the region.
The Jaksc/Pick reference suffix "f" indicates this is one of several face-value variants within the Hinterstoder issue.