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20 Heller St. Gotthard
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Gotthard (Municipality of St. Gotthard, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher printed in dark blue ink on white paper, with a zigzag-patterned outer border enclosing the entire face. The left panel contains the denomination numeral '20' above the word 'Heller' within a double-ruled box, below which a counterfeiting warning reads 'Nachmachung wird gesetzlich bestraft.' The right panel carries the full issuing text in German Kurrent script, including the municipality's name, the resolution date of 1 May 1920, the total issue amount of 40,000 Kronen, and the redemption clause at the Gemeindekasse until 31 December 1920. At the foot of the note, the signatures of the Vizebürgermeister Karl Freilinger and the Bürgermeister Florian Sachsenhofer appear beneath their respective titles, flanking a small printer's monogram. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Gotthard. Die Gemeinde St. Gotthard in Oberösterreich gibt laut Beschluß vom 1. Mai 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 40.000 K aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. St. Gotthard, am 1. Mai 1920. 20 Heller Nachmachung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Vizebürgermeister: Karl Freilinger. Der Bürgermeister: Florian Sachsenhofer. |
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St. Gotthard is a small municipality in the Hausruckkreis district of Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1921, when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left ordinary communities without workable small change. Municipalities, businesses, and local cooperatives printed their own — legally tolerated but never formally authorized by Vienna.
The two signatories here, Bürgermeister Sachsenhofer and Vizebürgermeister Freilinger, personally validated the note's local creditworthiness. In practice, these Heller denominations rarely traveled far from their issuing parish.