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20 Heller St. Georgen am Walde
| Issuer | Sankt Georgen am Walde, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper, the obverse is dominated by a central oval vignette after a drawing by Rud. Reiser, showing the village square of St. Georgen am Walde with a Gothic church steeple, municipal buildings, and a decorative fountain in the foreground, framed by scrollwork ornaments. The denomination numeral '20' appears in ornate cartouches at the upper left and upper right corners against a blue ground, with the issuer's name 'ST. GEORGEN a. WALD' in bold lettering across the top. A right-hand panel, separated by a vertical rule, carries the validity text, official signatures, and the printer's imprint 'DRUCK HIEBL, GREIN' at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | ST. GEORGEN a. WALD GUTSCHEIN ÜBER 20 HELLER GILTIG BIS 30. AUGUST 1921 Die Vizebürgermeister: Fl. Palmelzhofer Franz Tomper Der Bürgermeister: Jos. Fürnhammer Die Nachahmung dieses Gutscheines wird gesetzl. bestraft. |
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Sankt Georgen am Walde is a small Upper Austrian parish municipality, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a period when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation and local authorities were legally permitted to fill the gap themselves. The printer, Hiebl of Grein, was a regional press serving the Mühlviertel and Perg districts, not a specialist banknote house, which is exactly what you'd expect for a village-level emergency issue of this kind.
Rud. Reiser's design credit is unusual enough to note — most comparable issues from comparable municipalities were printed from stock or near-stock layouts with minimal individual attribution.