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20 Heller St. Georgen an der Gusen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde St. Georgen an der Gusen |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red on a cream-coloured paper ground with a typeset underprint of repeated text reading '20 Heller' across the entire field. Two decorative cartouches flank the central panel, each containing a vignette of a stylised plant spike or catkin rendered in red. The central panel bears a diamond-shaped frame enclosing the large denomination numeral '20h' in bold red Gothic lettering, surmounted by the inscription 'Gutschein über' and below by 'der Markt-Gemeinde St. Georgen a. d. Gusen'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 20h der Markt-Gemeinde St. Georgen a. d. Gusen |
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St. Georgen an der Gusen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921 when small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipal and local authorities scrambling to fill the gap, and Marktgemeinde St. Georgen an der Gusen did exactly what hundreds of comparable communities did: issued its own emergency paper.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0886I-20 places this within the broader Upper Austrian municipal series. Collector demand for these regional Austrian Notgeld issues has historically been driven more by locality than by rarity.