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20 Heller Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green letterpress vignette of the Altenhof estate set within a decorative scrollwork border, with a panoramic landscape of the manor house, church tower, and surrounding trees rendered in fine line engraving style. The large numeral '20' appears in a cartouche at centre-bottom, flanked by ornamental volutes. Below, a multi-line text block states the municipality's authorisation to issue vouchers up to a total of 100,000 Kronen, dated Pfarrkirchen, 13. Mai 1920, with the designer's signature 'L. Hesse' visible at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-green letterpress note with a guilloche-pattern outer border framing an inner panel. The heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Pfarrkirchen' is set in Gothic script at the top, flanked by the numeral '20' at each upper corner. The large denomination legend 'Zwanzig Heller' is rendered in bold Fraktur calligraphy across the centre. Below, a guarantee text states the municipality's obligation to redeem the voucher in legal tender, with an anti-counterfeiting warning at lower left and the mayor's manuscript signature at lower right. |
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Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis is a small Upper Austrian market commune, and this 20 Heller notgeld dates from the chaotic period of postwar Austrian monetary collapse when hundreds of municipalities — unable to obtain adequate coin supplies from Vienna — printed their own emergency small-denomination scrip. The designer credit to L. Hesse is unusual for a village-level issue; most comparable communes used local printers without credited designers.
Signed by Bürgermeister Höllinger, whose tenure placed his name on what was, in practical terms, a legal liability of the commune itself.