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20 Heller Untergaisbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Untergaisbach (Municipality of Untergaisbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zwanzig 20 Heller gültig bis 31. Dez. 1920 Ortsgemeinde Untergaisbach Die Gemeinde Untergaisbach gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrag von 30000 K aus (G.R.B. 29/v. 1920) (Translation: Coupon for Twenty 20 Heller valid until 31 December 1920, Local Municipality of Untergaisbach. The Municipality of Untergaisbach issues coupons up to a total amount of 30,000 Kronen (Municipal Council Resolution 29/v. 1920)) |
| Reverse description | Plain violet-printed reverse with a fine geometric guilloche underprint and denomination numerals '20' in each corner. The upper border carries an anti-counterfeiting warning in capital letters. Central text block in Gothic script states the municipality's legal guarantee to redeem the note in lawful cash, with spaces at the foot for two manuscript signatures: those of the Gemeinderat (Municipal Council) and the Bürgermeister (Mayor). |
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Untergaisbach is a small settlement in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of comparable parishes, it issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. The 20 Heller denomination was one of the most common targets for municipal issues precisely because copper and bronze coinage in that range had effectively vanished from everyday commerce by 1920.
The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch-Pick Austrian Notgeld catalog, which documented thousands of these hyper-local emissions. Most were printed in short runs by regional job printers and redeemed within months.