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20 Heller Jochberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Jochberg (Municipality of Jochberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark red and brown on cream paper with a red border frame. To the left, an oval vignette contains a bust-length portrait of Anton Oppacher in traditional Tyrolean costume, rendered in fine line engraving, with a banner below bearing his name. To the right, the denomination '20 Hl' is set in large Gothic lettering above the issuer text and validity clause, concluded by a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown and red on cream paper with a red border frame. To the left, a full-length woodcut-style vignette shows a standing male figure in alpine attire surveying a rugged mountain landscape with wildflowers in the foreground. To the right, the numeral '20' appears within a large red disc. At the top, a four-line patriotic verse in Gothic script occupies the upper register; the imprint 'Wagner Innsbruck' appears at lower right, with '2. Auflage' at lower left. |
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Jochberg is a small alpine commune in the Kitzbühel district of Tyrol, and this 20 Heller notgeld was issued amid the acute coin shortage that plagued Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left rural municipalities scrambling to produce their own emergency fractional currency — Wagner of Innsbruck was one of the regional printers that absorbed much of that local demand across the Tyrol.
The Jaksch/Pick reference suffix "b" indicates a recognized variant within the type, likely a color or paper distinction from the base issue.