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20 Heller Lochen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lochen (Municipality of Lochen) |
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| Designer(s) | Sepp Auer |
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| Obverse lettering | Lochen 20 20 SEPP AUER |
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| 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.