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20 Heller St. Johann im Pongau
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei R. Holzer, St. Johann im Pongau |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld gutschein printed in dark red on a pink diamond-pattern underprint, enclosed within a decorative typographic border with ornamental corner pieces. The heading reads 'Buchdruckerei / St. Johann im Pongau' in Gothic blackletter script at the top, with the denomination numeral '20' appearing in large bold type at both left and right flanking the central text block, and the word 'Heller' beneath each. A faint double-headed eagle vignette is printed in light red as a central underprint behind the text 'Gutschein', above a liability declaration in German blackletter script naming the issuer. |
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| Obverse lettering | Buchdruckerei St. Johann im Pongau 20 Gutschein 20 Heller Heller Die Buchdruckerei R. Holzer in St. Johann i. P. haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen u. unbeweglichen Vermögen. |
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St. Johann im Pongau is a small market town in the Salzburg region, and this 20 Heller note is a Kriegsgeld — emergency small change issued locally during the First World War when metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation across Austria-Hungary. The issuer and the printer are the same entity: Buchdruckerei R. Holzer, a local print shop that produced the note on its own authority, a common arrangement for Ortsgemeinden and private businesses filling the coin vacuum after 1914.
Self-printed local emergency money of this type was rarely produced in large quantities, and survival rates are uneven — many were redeemed and pulped, others simply worn to illegibility.