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20 Heller Traisen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Traisen (Municipality of Traisen) |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on white paper within a decorative letterpress border, the obverse centres on an allegorical vignette of a seated female figure surrounded by leafy branches and implements of industry and craft. Denomination numerals '20' appear in bold black type within circular cartouches at the upper left and right corners, each inscribed 'HELLER'. Vertical side panels carry the motto 'DURCH ARBEIT ZUR WOHLFAHRT!' in rotated text on the left and a fourteen-day redemption clause on the right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 NOTGELD 20 GEMEINDE TRAISEN DER BÜRGERMEISTER: |
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Traisen is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during World War I, it was forced to issue its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — when small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1914. Hoarding and metal requisitions gutted the supply of Heller coins, leaving local commerce functionally paralyzed without substitutes.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this within the vast JPR series cataloguing Austrian municipal issues, a category so numerous that many individual commune pieces remain poorly documented in terms of exact print runs or issue dates.