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20 Heller Lohnsburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lohnsburg (Municipality of Lohnsburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Reverse description | Salmon-pink reverse printed in dark blue ink, framed by a decorative Art Nouveau border with stylised floral and foliate motifs at the corners and along the top and bottom panels. The numeral '20' appears in bold within square cartouches at upper left and upper right. A large central oval vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Lohnsburg, with the church spire prominent against a clouded sky and open fields in the foreground. Below the vignette, a three-line text block in German Gothic script records the authorising council resolution (G.A.B. v. 18/4 1920), the total issue amount of 20,000 Kronen, and the redemption deadline of 31 December 1920. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 20 Die Gemeinde Lohnsburg gibt Gutscheine bis zum Gesamtbetrage von 20.000Kr aus (G.A.B. v. 18/4 1920) Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31/12.1920 in gesetzl. Bargelde eingelöst. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this period emerged from a genuine small-change crisis following World War I, when coin metal had been systematically stripped for the war effort and the central government proved unable to plug the gap. Hundreds of Austrian communes issued their own emergency scrip between roughly 1919 and 1922, and Lohnsburg — a small market village in the Innviertel district of Upper Austria — was among them.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0561II-20 places this within the second series for Lohnsburg, suggesting the municipality had already issued one round before this 20 Heller denomination was put into local use.