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20 Heller Hüttau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hüttau (Municipality of Hüttau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 January 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on light paper, the obverse is divided into three vertical panels within a decorative border. The wide central panel contains a detailed landscape vignette of the town of Hüttau viewed from above, with a prominent church steeple rising above the rooftops and forested hills in the background. The two flanking panels each bear the denomination inscription 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 20 HELLER' within ornamental frames, with two manuscript signatures appearing at the lower left and right, attributed to municipal officials. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on light paper, the reverse presents a bold typographic layout within a double-ruled rectangular border with stylised Art Nouveau corner ornaments and an oval guilloche frame at centre. The denomination 'HELLER 20 HELLER' is set across the top in block lettering, below which the central oval cartouche carries the redemption text, total print run of 20,000 Kronen, and the council resolution date. The printer's imprint 'R. KIESEL, SALZBURG.' appears at the foot of the note. |
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Hüttau is a small village in the Salzburg uplands, and its 1920 Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation during and after the First World War. Municipal authorities across Austria — including the most obscure rural communes — were left with no practical alternative but to print their own fractional scrip. R. Kiesel was a Salzburg commercial printer, not a security press, which is exactly what you'd expect for a village-level emergency issue at this scale.
The "b" variant designation in the Jaksc catalogue typically signals a printing or paper distinction from the "a" type — worth checking against a reference copy before cataloguing condition.