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20 Heller Oeblarn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Oeblarn im Ennstale (Municipality of Oeblarn in the Enns Valley) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE OEBLARN IM ENNSTALE 20 HELLER |
| Reverse description | Plain buff paper with a simple wavy-line border enclosing a block of justified German text authorizing the emergency currency issue, citing the municipal council resolution of 8 July 1920, a total notgeld issue of K 40,000, and the municipality's liability guarantee until 31 October 1920. The place and date 'Oeblarn, am 21. Juli 1920.' are centered below the text, followed by two handwritten signatures beneath the printed role designations 'Kassier:' and 'Bürgermeister:'. |
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Oeblarn is a small Alpine village in Styria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of Austria's postwar Notgeld crisis — the acute small-coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system in 1918. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities issued their own emergency paper, legally authorized under provisions that gave local authorities latitude to fill the vacuum left by a central bank that had effectively ceased to function in any coherent way.
The Jaksc catalog designation places this firmly in the documented regional Notgeld series. Oeblarn's issues are among the less commonly encountered Styrian village pieces.