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20 Heller Seekirchen
| Issuer | Landgemeinde Seekirchen (Rural Municipality of Seekirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a panoramic landscape vignette of the Seekirchen townscape, with a church steeple and alpine foothills visible in the middle ground against a mountain backdrop, rendered in fine line engraving. The denomination numeral '20' appears in circular cartouches at the upper left and right corners, within a decorative floral border frame. The value inscription '20 Heller' is set in bold typeface in the lower central area, above an anti-counterfeiting warning line and a small printer's mark. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zur Behebung der herrschenden Kleingeldnot gibt die Landgemeinde Seekirchen auf Grund des Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 28. Juni 1920 Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 40.000 Kronen aus. Diese Gutscheine werden am 31. Dezember 1920 beim Gemeindeamte in Land Seekirchen in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst und wurde hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Landgemeinde-Vorstehung Seekirchen. Der Bürgermeister: Mösl. Druck: E. u. K. Müller, Salzburg. |
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Seekirchen am Wallersee is a small market town north of Salzburg, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War left the new republic with a catastrophic coin shortage. The rural commune issued its own emergency currency because everyday transactions had become genuinely impossible — copper and nickel had been consumed by the war economy, and the central authorities were in no position to restock small denominations quickly.
E. u. K. Müller was a Salzburg printing firm that handled a number of these local issues, which is why the production quality here exceeds what you might expect from a village-level emergency note. Bürgermeister Mösl's signature provides the only formal guarantee of redemption.