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20 Heller Kirchberg am Walde
| Issuer | Gemeinde Kirchberg am Walde (Municipality of Kirchberg am Walde) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 August 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Oval vignette of Robert Hamerling's birthplace (Geburtshaus) at left; denomination 20 in circle with Heller flanking at right. Three facsimile signatures of municipal officials below guarantee text. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream ground with Gothic-script verse from Robert Hamerling's "Germanenzug" printed in blue-black, followed by note of issue and redemption deadline. |
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Kirchberg am Walde is a small parish in Lower Austria's Waldviertel, and this 1920 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal notgeld issued after the First World War, when small-denomination coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation. Thousands of Austrian communes printed their own emergency pfennig-and-heller scrip during this period; F. Berger of Horn was one of the regional printers that handled a significant share of the Lower Austrian issues, serving dozens of Waldviertel municipalities from a single facility.
Three signatories — unusual for a village note of this value. Suggests the municipality required full council authorization even at the 20 Heller level.