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20 Heller Lochen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lochen (Municipality of Lochen) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in blue, is dominated by a large central octagonal cartouche containing the stylised denomination inscription 'Hel 20 ler' in bold interlocking letterforms. Flanking scroll ornaments in an Art Nouveau manner occupy the upper corners. The redemption text is arranged in two columns below the cartouche, and the printer's imprint 'Druck von J. Mairsl Braunau am Inn' appears in small italics along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Hel 20 ler DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920 IN GESETZ UCH BARGE LD EINGELOST. GEMOR ANGLBERGER Druck von J. Mairsl Braunau am Inn. |
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Lochen is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities, it issued emergency small change — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. This 20 Heller piece is among the more locally rooted of such issues: both the printer, J. Mairsl, and the designer, Sepp Auer, were based in Braunau am Inn, the district capital just a few kilometers away, giving the note an unusually tight geographic provenance.
Mairsl was a regional commercial printer, not a banknote specialist, which is worth keeping in mind when assessing impression quality on surviving examples.