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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 cream-ground reverse with a wavy-line black border. The field is occupied entirely by a printed German-language legal text authorising the issue of Notgeld to a total value of K 40,000 by resolution of the municipal council dated 8 July 1920, with the municipality's movable and immovable assets pledged as security until 31 October 1920. Below the text the place and date 'Oeblarn, am 21. Juli 1920' is printed, followed by the printed role designations 'Kassier:' and 'Bürgermeister:' above two manuscript signatures. |
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Oeblarn is a small village in Styria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of Austria's postwar Notgeld crisis — the collapse of the Habsburg economy left municipal governments across the country scrambling to produce their own emergency small change when coins vanished from circulation almost entirely. Hundreds of Austrian communities issued their own Heller notes between 1919 and 1921, many through local printers with no formal banking infrastructure behind them.
The Jaksc reference places this within the documented Styrian municipal issues, but surviving examples from Oeblarn are uncommon — the village's small population meant limited print runs.