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20 Heller Styria
| Issuer | Land Steiermark (Federal State of Styria) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-green note with dense guilloche underprint. Central numeral '20' in dark intaglio within a wavy oval vignette, flanked by the denomination text 'über zwanzig Heller' on each side and issuer inscription 'des Landes Steiermark' below. Three facsimile signatures of the Stellvertreter, Landeshauptmann, and Finanzreferent appear at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-green note with floral guilloche underprint bearing watermark-style coat-of-arms vignettes. The denomination 'Gutschein über zwanzig 20 Heller des Landes Steiermark' is set in ornate script at the top. A block of German text below explains the legal basis for issue and the redemption conditions at the Landesobereinnehmeramt in Graz. |
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Styria's 1919 Heller notgeld emerged from the catastrophic currency shortage that followed the collapse of Austria-Hungary. The new Republic of German-Austria had essentially no functioning monetary infrastructure in its early weeks, and provincial and municipal authorities across the former empire filled the gap by issuing their own emergency small-denomination paper. Styria's Land government was among the more organized issuers, producing a short series rather than the chaotic flood of purely local Gemeinde notes seen elsewhere.
Heller denominations were obsolete almost as soon as they were printed — the postwar inflation made small change irrelevant within months.