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20 Heller St. Agatha
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Agatha bei Wels |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0877Ia-20 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in the same teal-green on cream paper, is dominated by a landscape vignette set within a double-ruled rectangular frame: a rustic barn structure at centre, flanked by a large tree to the right and low shrubbery to the left, rendered in a bold woodcut or lithographic style with hatched skies. A narrow vertical panel at the left edge carries the denomination inscription '20 Heller' in upright sans-serif lettering. Below the central vignette the caption 'FADINGER-HÜTTE MITLINDEN – 1625. –' is printed in spaced capitals, referencing the historical Fadinger farmstead. |
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| Signature(s) | Altenhofer |
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Sankt Agatha bei Wels is a small rural parish in Upper Austria, and like dozens of similar communes it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 20 Heller denomination places this squarely in the 1920–1921 wave of Austrian local issues, when even villages with no meaningful commercial infrastructure were printing their own scrip to cover day-to-day small transactions.
The single signature, Altenhofer, almost certainly the Bürgermeister at the time, was sufficient authorization for issues of this type and scale.