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20 Heller Traisen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Traisen (Municipality of Traisen) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Heller Heller 20 Gutschein 20 Heller Gemeinde Traisen Heller DURCH ARBEIT ZUR WOHLFAHRT! Wird innerhalb 14 Tagen nach erfolgter Kundmachung eingelöst |
| Reverse description | Printed in green on white paper, the reverse centres on an oval vignette containing a detailed line-engraved view of the Traisen municipal town hall facade with its clock tower, framed between two tall decorative columns on a solid green ground. A horizontal banner across the top bears the denomination and 'NOTGELD' inscription, while the municipality name appears in a bold stylised banner at the base above a signature line reserved for the mayor. A small artist's monogram is present in the lower right corner. |
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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.