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20 Heller Ober-Wölbling
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Ober-Wölbling (Market Town of Ober-Wölbling) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green on pink paper, the obverse carries a letterpress vignette of the Ober-Wölbling market square, with an ornate column surmounted by a figure at centre and a long civic building in the background, all set within a decorative ruled frame. To the right, a scroll cartouche encloses the denomination '20 HELLER' in bold Gothic lettering, flanked by the circular municipal seal of the Marktgemeinde. Three facsimile signatures appear along the lower margin, attributed respectively to the Vice-Mayor, the Mayor, and the Managing Councillor. |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE OBER-WÖLBLING ÜBER 20 HELLER DER VICEBÜRGERMEISTER DER BÜRGERMEISTER DER GESCHÄFTSFÜHRENDE GEMEINDERAT |
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Ober-Wölbling is a small market commune in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria between 1919 and 1921 — municipalities printing their own emergency small change to compensate for the chronic shortage of coins that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg was a local print shop in the nearby town of Herzogenburg, serving several communes in the region during this period.
Herzogenburg is roughly four kilometers from Ober-Wölbling — a reminder of how hyperlocal this emergency currency actually was.