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20 Heller Lorch
| Issuer | Municipality of Lorch (Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on cream paper, the obverse is framed by Gothic-arched tracery borders at left and right, with stylised trefoil ornaments at the upper corners. The central shield-shaped vignette presents a letterpress illustration of the Totenleuchte of Lorch — a Gothic stone funerary lantern column set before trees and a low wall — captioned 'TOTEN LEVCHTE' beneath, while the denomination '20 HELLER' appears in bold type within the Gothic arch panels at lower left and lower right. The issuer inscription 'GEMEINDE LORCH.' is set in a rectangular panel at the foot of the note, flanked by lozenge ornaments, with '2. Auflage' (second edition) printed in small type at lower left outside the border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 HELLER TOTEN LEVCHTE GEMEINDE LORCH. 2. Auflage |
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Lorch — the Roman settlement of Lauriacum, once capital of the province of Noricum Ripense — issued this Heller note during Austria's postwar Kleingeldersatz crisis, when fractional coinage had vanished entirely from circulation. These municipal emergency notes, Notgeld in the strictest sense, were printed by local jobbing presses with no pretense of security printing. Buchdruckerei Dnas was precisely that: a small commercial printer pressed into quasi-monetary work.
The 0564b suffix in the Jaksch catalogue indicates a variant within the Lorch series, likely a paper stock or color distinction from an otherwise identical issue.