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20 Heller Pichl bei Wels
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pichl (Municipality of Pichl bei Wels) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and blue on plain paper, the obverse is enclosed within a decorative border of interlocking guilloche ornaments. The denomination '20' appears in white numerals against solid brown panels at upper left and right, while the title 'Zwanzig Heller' is set in Gothic blackletter script across the central header band. Below, the issuing authority legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Pichl' is printed in large Gothic script, with a large blue underprint numeral '20' centred across the body of the note, overlaid by the provincial designation 'Oberösterreich' and a three-line redemption guarantee text concluding with the Bürgermeister's signature line. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Zwanzig Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Pichl Oberösterreich. Die Gemeinde hastet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Der Bürgermeister: Aragberger Gültig nur bis einschließlich 1. November 192_ — Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gerichtlich bestraft. |
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Pichl bei Wels is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities it turned to Notgeld in the postwar years to address the acute shortage of small-denomination coins that had been hoarded, melted, or simply never replaced after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The Volksbote-Druckerei in Wels was a regional Catholic press — "Volksbote" being the name of a local Catholic newspaper — that took on substantial Notgeld printing work for surrounding municipalities in this period.
The 20 Heller denomination places this squarely in the everyday transaction range: streetcar fares, bread, small market purchases. Purely functional issue, no collector series ambitions.