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20 Heller Prägarten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Prägarten (Municipality of Prägarten) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Notgeld der Gemeinde PRÄGARTEN über Zwanzig Heller. Die Gemeinde Prägarten haftet mit ihrem Vermögen für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein einzulösen. Einlösungstermin 31/12. 1920. Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely occupied by a bold line-art vignette of a wind-bent tree growing from a cluster of large boulders, its bare branches sweeping to the left against a plain background. The denomination '20 Heller' is inscribed in the lower-left field in a plain sans-serif typeface. An artist's signature appears in the lower-right corner of the vignette. The composition is enclosed within a single ruled rectangular border. |
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Prägarten is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and like hundreds of similar communities it resorted to locally issued Notgeld during and after the First World War when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. These Heller notes filled the gap left by hoarded metal — a purely functional response to a shortage that the central authorities in Vienna were slow to address.
The JPR prefix in Jaksch/Pick cataloging designates Austrian municipal and local issues; the four-digit numbering places Prägarten alphabetically within that sequence, not in any order of rarity or significance.