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20 Heller St. Johann im Pongau
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei R. Holzer, St. Johann im Pongau |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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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. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain cream-white paper surface with visible fibrous texture and scattered inclusions consistent with the coarse wartime paper stock typical of Austrian Notgeld issues of the 1918–1921 period. |
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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.