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20 Heller Lamprechtshausen
| Issuer | Lamprechtshausen, Municipality of |
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| Size | 80 × 60 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-grey and dark ink on plain paper, with an intricate guilloche-style mesh pattern forming the overall background and border. At centre, an oval vignette presents a detailed letterpress view of a rural building complex identified as the birthplace (Geburtshaus) of Anton Gruber in Arnsdorf, with a church spire visible to the right; the vignette is framed by a decorative cartouche bearing the inscriptions 'ARNSDORF', 'G. RUBERS', and 'GEBURTSHAUS'. Vertical text in Gothic blackletter script runs along both the left and right margins, and a small artist's signature appears in the lower centre below the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | ARNSDORF G. RUBERS GEBURTSHAUS |
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Lamprechtshausen is a small market commune in the Flachgau district of Salzburg, and this 20 Heller note is one of the thousands of Austrian municipal Notgeld pieces issued during the acute coin shortage that gripped the country from around 1920. With metal coinage hoarded or melted, parishes and market towns across Austria printed their own small-denomination emergency paper to keep local commerce moving — a fragmented, hyperlocal response to a systemic collapse.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this squarely in the documented Austrian commune series. Attribution to specific printers at this level of municipality is rarely possible.