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20 Heller St. Willibald
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Willibald (Municipality of Sankt Willibald) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Gut-Schein 20 Zwanzig Heller Nur gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 St. Willibald, 1920. Gemeinde- St. Willibald o.ö. Der Bürgermeister: Jos. Kalholzer St. Jakob. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in grey-brown on plain salmon-pink paper within a single ruled rectangular border, carrying three paragraphs of Gothic script text. The text identifies the issuing authority, declares the legal basis of the emission — a municipal committee resolution of 9 May 1920 — pledges redemption against the municipality's full assets, specifies the redemption period from 1 to 31 December 1920 inclusive, and closes with a counterfeiting warning. |
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Sankt Willibald is a small Upper Austrian municipality near the Bavarian border, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept German-speaking Austria in 1920 following the economic dislocation of the post-war period. With coinage essentially absent from daily commerce — hoarded, melted, or simply never minted in sufficient quantities for the new republic — hundreds of Austrian municipalities printed their own emergency pfennig-denomination scrip to keep local trade moving.
The Gemeinde-issued Heller notes of this period were typically redeemable only within the issuing community, which kept most in local circulation and away from collectors — until municipalities began issuing decorative series specifically to attract them.