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20 Heller Holzhausen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Holzhausen (Municipality of Holzhausen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative scrollwork border. The denomination '20 Zwanzig Heller 20' is inscribed across the top in bold Gothic lettering. To the left, an oval vignette presents a half-length portrait of a Renaissance-era figure in period dress, captioned with a reference to the locality; to the right, a second vignette illustrates the local parish church with a tall steeple amid trees. The central panel carries the redemption text and bears the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet on cream paper, the reverse carries the heading 'Zweite Auflage.' (Second Edition) above the main design field, which is enclosed within the same scrollwork border as the obverse. Two side-by-side rectangular vignettes present line-engraved views of local buildings: on the left, a two-storey manor house or administrative building with a picket fence; on the right, a rural street scene with a church spire and farm structures visible in the middle ground. |
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Austrian Notgeld from the early 1920s inflation period, issued by one of the hundreds of small municipalities that printed their own emergency small-change notes when coin shortages made daily commerce nearly impossible. The federal government had effectively abandoned the lower denominations, leaving villages like Holzhausen to fill the gap independently. Many of these issues were redeemable only locally and for a limited period, which pushed most into souvenir collections rather than wallets almost immediately after issue.
The JPR0396b designation places this within the Jaksch-Pick regional cataloguing of Austrian Notgeld — the "b" suffix typically indicating a variant within the same municipality's issue run.