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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 | The reverse is plain unprinted paper, showing a strong letterpress offset impression through from the obverse, with the mirrored text and layout of the face clearly visible as a show-through in the thin paper stock. No distinct reverse design is present. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Senzenberger (Bürgermeister) |
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Lohnsburg is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued Notgeld in the early postwar years to address the catastrophic small-coin shortage that followed Austria's dissolution from the Habsburg Empire. The Heller, already a fractional unit of little purchasing power before the war, had essentially vanished from everyday commerce by 1920 — hoarding and metal shortages had seen to that.
Josef Senzenberger's signature as Bürgermeister gives this note its legal standing, such as it was. Municipal Notgeld carried no national guarantee; redemption depended entirely on the issuing commune's willingness and solvency when the crisis passed.