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20 Heller St. Georgen im Attergau
| Issuer | Markt-Kommune St. Georgen im Attergau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Markt-Kommune St. Georgen im Attergau gibt laut Beschlusse vom 6. Juni 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 25000 Kr. aus und haftet für die Verdindlichkeit diesen Gutschein bis 4 Wochen nach Bedarf durch die Marktkommune-Kasse in barem Gelde einzulösen. Der Vorstand. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in green, is centred on a large heraldic vignette of the Sankt Georgen town arms showing a mounted Saint George slaying the dragon, set within an ornate cartouche. Two figures in traditional Alpine dress flank the cartouche — a woodsman with an axe to the left and a huntsman to the right — rendered in detailed letterpress against a lightly hatched background evoking a forest setting. The denomination '20' appears within a circular panel at the upper right, with the legend 'Gutschein der Markt-Kommune St. Georgen im Attergau' arching across the upper portion of the design. |
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St. Georgen im Attergau is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued its own Heller-denominated Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the First World War. These hyper-local issues were produced in tiny quantities for purely practical reasons — small-denomination coinage had essentially vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and communities had no alternative.
By 1920 the Austrian Heller itself was nearly worthless in real terms, making these notes obsolete almost as soon as they were printed.