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20 Heller St. Veit im Pongau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Sankt Veit im Pongau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Heller 20 Heller Für die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines in gesetzlichem Bargelde innerhalb St. Veit i. Pongau der Bürgermeister: Pirnbacher Pfarrkirche in St. Veit i. Pongau der bestimmten Frist haftet die Marktgemeinde St. Veit im Pongau am 1. August 1920 Der l. Gemeinderat: Tenerwein |
| Reverse description | The reverse centres on an ornate Art Nouveau-style medallion composed of symmetrical scrolls, volutes, and dotted rosette motifs, enclosing the municipal coat of arms of St. Veit im Pongau — a shield with a figure of a saint at a tub. Redemption text in Kurrent script appears at the upper left and upper right corners, noting the exchange period from 1 to 31 December 1920. Facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and the Gemeinderat appear at the lower left and lower right respectively. |
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Sankt Veit im Pongau issued this 20 Heller note as part of Austria's Notgeld wave — the small-denomination emergency scrip that flooded the country between 1919 and 1921 when coin shortages made everyday commerce nearly impossible. The federal government's inability to maintain adequate coinage circulation after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system pushed hundreds of municipalities, including this small Salzburg market town, to print their own stopgap money.
The Jaksch reference places this firmly in the documented Salzburg regional series. Survival rates for these small paper pieces are actually quite variable — many were redeemed and pulped, while others were saved by collectors almost immediately, creating an odd distribution where mint-state specimens can be easier to find than genuinely circulated ones.