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20 Heller Kremsmünster
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Kremsmünster (Market Town of Kremsmünster) |
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| Printer | Emil Friegel, Steyr |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Kremsmünster Zwanzig Heller 20 Die Marktgemeinde Kremsmünster haftet für diesen Gutschein Der Bürgermeister Die Nachahmung wird bestraft Emil Friegel, Steyr |
| Reverse description | Printed in green on cream paper with a wavy-line underprint, the reverse carries a vignette of the Kremsmünster theatre building at left within a rectangular frame, captioned 'Theater'. To the right, the issuing authority title and denomination '20 / Zwanzig Heller' appear in gothic script, with the validity period 'Gültigkeitsdauer bis 31. Dezember 1920' noted beneath. The lower portion contains a two-stanza local dialect verse, the 'Kremsmünsterer Schnadahüpfl', printed in ornate gothic lettering. |
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Kremsmünster's 20 Heller notgeld was printed by Emil Friegel in nearby Steyr — a common arrangement during the acute coin shortage that swept Austria from 1914 onward, forcing hundreds of small municipalities to commission their own emergency small-change substitutes. Friegel was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, which is exactly what you'd expect for a village-level issue of this kind.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly within the vast Austrian notgeld corpus. Condition varies considerably across surviving examples — Friegel's paper stock was not archival grade.