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20 Heller Peterskirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Peterskirchen (Municipality of Peterskirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher printed in violet on buff paper, with a simple guilloche-patterned outer border and the issuer name GEMEINDE PETERSKIRCHEN repeated in the top and bottom margins. The central panel carries the denomination numeral 20 flanked by the word HELLER on each side, with a block of justification text in the centre pledging the municipality's liability for redemption at face value. The validity date 30. Oktober 1920 and facsimile signatures of the deputy and the mayor appear in the lower portion. |
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| Signature(s) | Jos. Freund (Stellvertreter) and Jos. Straßer (Bürgermeister) |
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Austrian municipal Notgeld of this type emerged from a coin shortage so acute that even tiny rural communities were forced to issue their own fractional paper. Peterskirchen — a small Upper Austrian parish — produced this 20 Heller note in 1920, well into the postwar inflation spiral that made small-denomination coinage effectively worthless as a medium of exchange. The two signatories, Bürgermeister Straßer and his deputy Freund, would have signed or authorized the printing locally, as was typical for parish-level issues.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0736-20 places this within the systematic cataloguing of Austrian Notgeld, a field where completeness matters more than rarity — most of these notes survived in collector hands rather than commerce.