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20 Heller Sarleinsbach
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Sarleinsbach (Market Town of Sarleinsbach) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse is enclosed within an ornate letterpress border of floral and foliate scrollwork, with fan-shaped guilloche rosettes at the four corners. At the top centre, a vignette of a clasped hand emerging from foliage flanks a wreath of laurel and oak sprays. Denomination numerals '20' appear in circular cartouches at left and right, each inscribed 'Heller' below, while the central text panel carries the issuing authority, the denomination inscription, and the redemption clause with the mayor's printed signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Sarleinsbach Gutschein über 20 Heller Wird über Beichluß des Gemeinde-ausschusses im Sinne der erfolgten Kundmachung von der Marktgemeinde bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst. Der Bürgermeister: Franz Jetschgo. |
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Sarleinsbach is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a Kriegsnotgeld issue — emergency municipal scrip produced during World War I when the Austro-Hungarian state could no longer keep small-denomination coinage in circulation. Hoarding and metal requisitions gutted the coin supply from 1914 onward, forcing thousands of municipalities to print their own fractional paper.
Franz Jetschgo's signature identifies him as the authorizing local official. The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0948-20 places this within the documented Upper Austrian municipal series, though survival rates for village-level Heller notes vary sharply — many were redeemed and pulped once the wartime shortage eased.