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20 Heller St. Marienkirchen bei Schärding
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Marienkirchen bei Schärding |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green on cream paper, the reverse is dominated by a central rectangular vignette illustrating agricultural field workers harvesting grain, rendered in a painterly photographic style. The vignette is framed by a broad decorative border of Art Nouveau foliate and scroll motifs, with the denomination '20 H.' repeated in the upper corners. The word 'Gutschein' appears at lower left and 'Gutschein' again at lower right in matching Gothic letterpress. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 H. Gutschein Gutschein |
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Sankt Marienkirchen bei Schärding is a small Upper Austrian municipality that, like hundreds of similarly sized communities, was forced into emergency currency issuance during the acute small-change shortage that followed World War I. Federal and provincial authorities were slow to supply adequate coinage, leaving local governments — parishes, market towns, rural communes — to fill the gap with Notgeld of their own design and authorization.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0910-20 places this squarely within the documented Austrian Gemeinde Notgeld corpus, though survivorship for rural 20-Heller pieces at this level of specificity is thin enough that census data remains incomplete.