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20 Heller Viehofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Viehofen (Municipality of Viehofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in teal-green on cream paper, the obverse is divided into two panels by a decorative border of intertwined branches and roots. The left panel contains a landscape vignette rendered in fine line engraving, showing a hilltop castle or manor house set among trees and foliage, with the denomination numeral '20' in an oval cartouche at upper left. The right panel, set against a pink guilloche underprint, carries the issuing authority's title and denomination in Gothic blackletter script, with a redemption clause in smaller roman type and three manuscript signatures below the titles Finanzreferent, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Gemeinde Viehofen bei St. Pölten über Zwanzig Heller Die Gemeinde Viehofen löst dieses Notgeld in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Juni 1920. Finanzreferent: Bürgermeister: Gemeinderat: |
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Viehofen is a small village in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy and the disruption of normal monetary supply to rural communities. Thousands of municipalities issued their own emergency small-denomination notes during this period, and the Jaksch-Pick catalog documents hundreds of Lower Austrian examples alone.
The Viehofen issue is among the more obscure entries in that catalog, with no known printer attribution and very limited documentation of original circulation quantities.