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20 Heller Hinterstoder
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hinterstoder (Municipality of Hinterstoder) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a detailed letterpress vignette of a rugged Alpine peak — identified by a caption as the Spitzmauer at 2,446 m — rendered in a fine engraved style with the denomination '20' repeated in the lower corners and a border of stylised floral ornaments at the foot. The right panel carries the denomination 'Gutschein / 20 / Heller' in large Gothic script at the top, followed by the issuing authority text and the place name 'Hinterstoder' in prominent blackletter, with the date '14. April 1920' and the manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Hinterstoder gibt auf Grund des Gemeindeausschuss- sitzungsbeschlusses vom 14. April 1920 Notgeld aus und haftet für die Einlösung mit ihrem ganzen Aktiv- vermögen. Die Gutscheine werden in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bar- gelde eingelöst. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Jos. Feichtingers Erben, Linz. |
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Hinterstoder is a small Alpine village in Upper Austria — in 1920, its population was well under a thousand. The note exists because the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system created a coin shortage so severe that hundreds of Austrian municipalities, parishes, and even private businesses printed their own fractional emergency currency. These Notgeld issues were a practical fix, not a monetary policy decision.
Jos. Feichtingers Erben was a Linz printing house that produced Notgeld for numerous Upper Austrian communes during this period, which is why the execution is competent despite the issuer's obscurity.