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20 Heller Schalchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schalchen (Municipality of Schalchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller Heller Gemeinde Schalchen |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Schalchen haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein mit Heller 20 Heller bis zum 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen und hat hiefür den hiezu nötigen Deckungsbetrag hinterlegt. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Schalchen, am 27. April 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Schmidinger. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this type emerged from a genuine coin shortage that persisted well after the First World War ended — the Austro-Hungarian monetary system had collapsed, and small denominations simply weren't reaching rural communities. Schalchen, a small municipality in Upper Austria, issued its own emergency paper to fill that gap, as hundreds of similarly small parishes did between 1919 and 1921.
The Schmidinger mayoral signature dates this to a specific, brief administrative moment. These hyper-local issues were typically redeemable only within the issuing parish, which kept survival rates low — few outsiders had reason to hold them.