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20 Heller Purgstall
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Purgstall an der Erlauf |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper note with a dense hatched guilloche underprint covering the entire field, enclosed within a double-ruled border with a beaded outer frame. The issuer inscription 'Marktgemeinde Purgstall' appears in bold letterpress at the top, above the large denomination numeral '20 Heller' in heavy Gothic typeface. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed on the same pink paper, shows the obverse design visible in mirror image through the thin stock. A circular violet official validation stamp of the Marktgemeinde Purgstall is applied at centre, bearing the legend around its circumference and an illegible handwritten countersignature within. |
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Purgstall an der Erlauf is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped German-speaking Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. Between roughly 1919 and 1922, hundreds of Austrian municipalities issued their own emergency paper — Notgeld — to fill the gap left by disappearing metal coinage. The official stamp was the commune's primary safeguard against counterfeiting, substituting for the security printing that a proper issuing authority could not afford.
Jaksch catalog references for Austrian municipal Notgeld are notoriously incomplete; survivorship among these small-run local issues is uneven.