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20 Heller Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis (Municipality of Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet on plain paper, the obverse is divided into three vertical panels. The central vignette presents a scenic view of Marsbach bei Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis with a church tower and rural buildings set against a mountainous backdrop, surmounted by a curved inscription arch. The left oval medallion contains a portrait of a bishop in ecclesiastical vestments, while the right oval medallion bears a female allegorical figure; the denomination numeral '20' appears in the upper corners and 'HELLER' is lettered across the lower corners, with facsimile signatures of municipal officials along the lower central margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark violet on plain paper, the reverse is framed by a dotted typographic border. A smaller panel at left bears the inscription 'Gutschein der Gemeinde' above the denomination numeral '20' set within a diamond cartouche, and 'Hofkirchen i. Mühlkreis' below. The main text block to the right carries the full redemption declaration in German Fraktur script, dated Hofkirchen, 29. Februar 1920, and signed by the Bürgermeister, with a counterfeiting warning at the foot. |
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Austrian municipal Notgeld of this type was driven almost entirely by the wartime and immediate postwar collapse of small-denomination coinage — by 1920, hoarding and metal shortages had stripped everyday change from circulation so thoroughly that hundreds of Austrian communes printed their own emergency issues just to keep local commerce moving. Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis, a small market town in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel, was one of them.
Bürgermeister K. Bogg's signature carries the full legal weight of the issue — municipal Notgeld was only valid within the issuing community, and the mayor's authorization was what distinguished an accepted local instrument from a worthless scrap.