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20 Heller Neukirchen a. d. Vöckla
| Issuer | Gemeinde Neukirchen an der Vöckla (Municipality of Neukirchen an der Vöckla) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink notgeld on paper with an ornate letterpress border of geometric and floral repeating motifs. At left, a vignette within an arched frame presents a view of the Neukirchen church tower and surrounding village buildings. The central panel carries the issuer inscription in Gothic script, while at upper right a large numeral '20' appears within a bold decorative cartouche, with the denomination spelled out in Gothic lettering below as 'Zwanzig Heller'. Printer credits appear in small type at the lower left and lower right margins. |
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| Reverse description | Buff-toned reverse with a geometric guilloche underprint and an ornate repeating border. The upper left corner bears the denomination '20 HELLER.' in bold type, below which a text panel in Gothic script states the municipality's liability guarantee with a validity date of 31 December 1920. The right portion is occupied by a large bird's-eye-view vignette of the Brauerei Zipf brewery complex, captioned 'Brauerei Zipf.' at lower left. Below the vignette, two facsimile manuscript signatures appear over the printed titles 'Der Bürgermeister:' and 'Gemeinderat:'. |
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A Notgeld issue from the Upper Austrian municipality of Neukirchen an der Vöckla, printed during the acute coin shortage that gripped the young Austrian republic in the early postwar years. Two Steyr printers share credit here — J. Diltsch and Druckerei Prietzel — an unusual dual attribution that may reflect a divided print run or a subcontracting arrangement, though the exact split is not documented in standard references.
Bürgermeister Josef Tobias signed as guarantor of redemption, a promise that many issuing municipalities quietly failed to honor once the emergency passed.