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20 Heller Ossarn
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Ossarn |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed on pale yellow-green paper with an ornate guilloche border framing the entire note. A central vignette presents a letterpress illustration of the local parish church surrounded by trees, flanked on either side by the large numeral '20' above the denomination 'Heller' in Gothic script. Below the vignette, a two-line liability clause in Gothic letterpress text is followed by the place and date 'Ossarn, im Mai 1920', with two manuscript signatures beneath the printed titles of the Vizebürgermeister and the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Ortsgemeinde Ossarn über 20 Heller Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Ortsgemeinde Ossarn unverzinsliche Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 10.000 Kr. aus. Sie werden von der Gemeinde Ossarn bis 31. Dezember 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 16. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg |
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Ossarn is a village in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller notgeld is exactly what it looks like: a hyperlocal emergency solution to the small-change shortage that plagued rural Austria after the First World War. The municipal council authorized these issues because coins had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never restocked by a postwar state with larger problems than counting out Heller.
Printed by Buchdruckerei Herzogenburg, a press serving the Herzogenburg district rather than any major currency printer. The signatures of Karl Lindwurm and Kittel authenticate the issue at the communal level — Lindwurm almost certainly serving as Bürgermeister.