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20 Heller St. Marienkirchen an der Polenz
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Marienkirchen an der Polsenz (Municipality of St. Marienkirchen an der Polsenz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Text-only note printed in dark ink on plain paper stock, with ornamental Art Nouveau-style floral and foliate border panels flanking both vertical edges. The central field carries the issuing authority's name in bold blackletter script — 'Die Gemeinde St. Marienkirchen a.d. Polsenz' — followed by a redemption text in Gothic typeface referencing a municipal council resolution dated 20/6 1920, and an anti-counterfeiting warning. The note is signed in manuscript by the Bürgermeister (mayor) at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a woodcut-style rural vignette occupying the central field, with a farmstead scene of low whitewashed buildings set among tall deciduous trees, two figures standing in the foreground. The denomination numeral '20' appears in bold within framed cartouches at the upper left and upper right corners. A decorative geometric and wave-pattern border frames the entire face, with the inscription 'GEMEINDE ST. MARIENKIRCHEN' running along the lower margin. |
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St. Marienkirchen an der Polsenz is a small Upper Austrian municipality that, like hundreds of similarly sized communes, was forced into emergency note issuance during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The 20 Heller denomination sits at the lower end of typical Notgeld values — practical change replacement rather than the decorative collector-oriented issues that larger Austrian towns produced simultaneously.
Signed by Josef Ordnussy, presumably the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal official at the time of issue. The JPR0909a prefix in Jaksch/Pick indicates a catalogued but thinly documented issue — surviving examples are uncommon simply because most small-commune Austrian Notgeld of 1920 was redeemed and pulped once coin circulation normalized.