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20 Heller Meggenhofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Meggenhofen (Municipality of Meggenhofen) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on lilac paper, the obverse is enclosed within a bold letterpress border of small square ornaments. At the top, a notice reads 'SONDER-AUSGABE 750 STÜCK!' indicating a limited special issue of 750 pieces. The large numeral '20' occupies the centre, flanked symmetrically on each side by the denomination legend 'HELLER' and rows of small decorative square vignettes. Below, the issuing authority 'Gemeinde Meggenhofen, OÖ.' is inscribed, followed by the mayoral authorisation line 'Der Bürgermeister: HATTINGER m. p.' |
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| Signature(s) | Hattinger |
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Meggenhofen is a small Upper Austrian village — population well under a thousand even today — and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld emergency, when the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system during and after the First World War left local communities scrambling to produce their own small-denomination scrip. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities did the same between roughly 1914 and 1922, many commissioning artistically elaborate issues, others producing rudimentary hand-stamped slips like this one.
The single signature, Hattinger, almost certainly represents the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal cashier authorizing the note on behalf of the commune.