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20 Heller Hohenzell
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hohenzell (Municipality of Hohenzell) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-tinted notgeld on cream paper, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border with corner ornaments. The issuer name ":Gemeinde: :Hohenzell:" appears in Gothic blackletter across the upper portion, flanked by rows of decorative orange guilloche scroll-work. A bold central vignette bears the denomination "20" in large numerals between the inscriptions "Heller" on either side, set against a fine vertical-line underprint panel. Below, a two-column text block states the municipality's liability guarantee, signed by J. Keitl as deputy mayor (Bgm.-Stellv.) and J. Wöllinger as mayor (Bgm.), with the validity date "30. Sept. 1920" noted upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein. Gemeinde Hohenzell, Oberösterreich. Zur Linderung der herrschenden Hartgeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Hohenzell laut Beschluß v. 7. Mai 1920 Gutscheine aus. Heller 20 Heller |
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Hohenzell is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller notgeld dates from the peak of Austria's small-change crisis following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. With coin hoarding rampant and the new republican government unable to supply sufficient fractional currency, thousands of Austrian communes issued their own emergency paper — most of it redeemed and destroyed within a few years, which accounts for the scarcity of many village-level issues today.
The dual signatures — Bürgermeister Wöllinger and his deputy Keitl — were legally required to validate municipal notgeld under the conventions of the period. Hohenzell's issue is among the more obscure in the Jaksc corpus.