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20 Heller Kapelln
| Issuer | Hans Kaiser, Spezerei-, Manufaktur-, Kurz- und Wirkwarenhandlung, Kapelln a.d. Perschling |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink note with a decorative letterpress-printed border of interlocking geometric and diamond motifs. Denomination numeral '20' appears in large circular cartouches at upper left and right, flanking the central Fraktur inscription 'Heller' and an oval vignette of a town panorama with a church steeple amid rooftops and trees. A scrollwork ribbon beneath the vignette carries the issuer legend in Gothic script, with a two-line redemption clause in Fraktur text along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain salmon-pink note with a simple ruled border enclosing a faint scrollwork underprint at the corners. The entire face is devoted to typeset text in Fraktur and Gothic scripts, with the issuer's name in a large bold display typeface at centre, surrounded by a detailed enumeration of his commercial activities and the locality name in a prominent lower display line. |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced during the acute coin shortage of 1916–1921, this 20 Heller piece was authorized by a single private merchant — Hans Kaiser, running a mixed-goods trade in Kapelln an der Perschling, a small market village in Lower Austria. The authorizing body here is not a municipality or savings bank but a named individual shopkeeper, which was legally permissible under the informal emergency currency arrangements of the period and makes attribution straightforward but redemption accountability essentially personal.
Printed by the Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg, a local press serving the region around the town of Herzogenburg roughly twelve kilometers away.