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20 Heller Spital am Pyhrn
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Spital am Pyhrn |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the obverse is dominated by large Art Nouveau letterpress text arranged in four lines reading ORTS · GEMEINDE / SPITAL · AM · PYHRN / GUTSCHEIN · ÜBER / ZWANZIG HELLER. Below, two square panels each bearing the numeral 20 in an oval frame flank a central text block stating the redemption date and the issuing authority. A vertical decorative border of stylized foliate and scroll ornaments runs the full height of the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in two colours: a blue outer border of interlocking diamond-pattern guilloche and stylized foliate scroll panels frames a central rectangular vignette rendered in brown, showing the interior of an old scythe forge (Alte Sensenschmiede) with a craftsman at the anvil and large mechanical equipment visible in the background. The caption ALTE SENSENSCHMIEDE appears in letterpress along the lower edge of the vignette within the blue decorative frame. |
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Spital am Pyhrn is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian communities, it resorted to issuing its own small-denomination emergency paper in the years following World War One. The chronic shortage of coin — silver had been hoarded, base metal coinage disrupted — forced municipal authorities across the country to fill the gap locally. These Notgeld issues were authorized under emergency provisions and typically printed in very limited runs for purely local use.
The 20 Heller denomination places this squarely in the low-end transactional range, the kind of value exchanged daily for bread or postage.