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20 Heller Laakirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Laakirchen (Municipality of Laakirchen, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE LAAKIRCHEN OÖ Gutschein ÜBER ZWANZIG HELLER 20 Nachahmung strafbar. Der Bürgermeister: Gültig bis 31. Oktober 1920. |
| Reverse description | Purple and red bicolour design on cream paper, enclosed within a multi-rule border with ornamental corner pieces. A central oval vignette depicts a horse-drawn wagon train of three laden carriages travelling from left to right, captioned 'GMUNDEN – LAAKIRCHEN – LINZ' below the vignette. The denomination numeral '20' appears in red-printed corner cartouches at all four corners, and the issuer name 'GEMEINDE LAAKIRCHEN OÖ' is set in bold capitals across the lower margin. |
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Laakirchen's 20 Heller notgeld belongs to the second wave of Austrian municipal emergency money — the prolonged postwar issues printed well after the armistice, when coin shortages persisted and the new Austrian state had not yet stabilized small-denomination supply. By 1920 this was an administrative nuisance more than a crisis measure, with hundreds of Upper Austrian communes producing their own fractional paper at minimal print runs.
Laakirchen, a paper-mill town on the Traun, was modest enough that its notgeld issues circulated almost entirely within the local economy. The series was redeemable by the issuing municipality, though enforcement of that obligation varied considerably across the region.