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20 Heller Sigharting
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sigharting (Municipality of Sigharting) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0997a-20 |
| Obverse description | Brown on pale grey paper. A circular vignette at centre presents a detailed line-engraved view of a castle or manor building with towers and turrets. The denomination '20' appears in oval cartouches at upper left and upper right, each accompanied by the legend 'ZWANZIG' below, with 'HELLER' inscribed at lower left and lower right. Stylised grain or leaf sprays flank the central vignette, and the issuer inscription 'Gemeinde-Sigharting im Innviertl' runs across a bold solid panel at the base of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 ZWANZIG NOTGELD HELLER Gemeinde-Sigharting im Innviertl |
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Sigharting is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is one of the thousands of Austrian Kleingeldscheine — local emergency currency — issued by municipalities, cooperatives, and businesses during the chronic coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The Viennese mint simply could not produce low-denomination coinage fast enough to meet demand in 1920, leaving rural communities to fend for themselves.
Bürgermeister Franz Hager's countersignature alongside the Gemeinderat representative Lechtenhammer gave the note its local legal standing — without both, redemption could be disputed.