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20 Heller Traun
| Issuer | Gemeinde Traun (Municipality of Traun) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE TRAUN ZWANZIG HELLER 20 DIE GEMEINDE TRAUN HAFTET FÜR DIE VERBINDLICHKEIT, DIESEN SCHEIN INNERHALB EINER BESTIMMTEN FRIST, GEGEN GESETZLICHES BARGELD EINZULÖSEN MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN GUTE. TRAUN, AM 31. MAI 1920. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: HEINRICH GRUBER DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES SCHEINES WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT. |
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| Signature(s) | Heinrich Gruber (Bürgermeister) |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this scale was almost always a stopgap against the chronic small-coin shortage that plagued the post-WWI republic as the old imperial coinage disappeared from circulation. Traun, a small industrial commune in Upper Austria, issued these heller notes under the same emergency provisions that saw hundreds of Austrian municipalities printing their own fractional currency between 1919 and 1921.
Heinrich Gruber's signature as Bürgermeister gives the note its legal standing — municipal authority, not any banking institution, backed redemption.