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20 Heller Vöcklamarkt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Vöcklamarkt (Municipality of Vöcklamarkt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued on cream paper with a tan brick-pattern underprint forming the overall background. The central text panel, framed by a decorative letterpress border with ornamental corner devices and horizontal rule bands, carries the denomination in Gothic script reading 'Zwanzig 20 Heller', with the numeral '20' set in a larger bold type. The four corners each bear the numeral '20', and a lower text block provides the redemption guarantee clause and the facsimile signature of Bürgermeister Gramlinger. |
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| Signature(s) | Gramlinger (Bürgermeister) |
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Vöcklamarkt is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a Notgeld issue — emergency small-change currency printed to address the severe coin shortage that plagued Austria in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. Municipal governments across the former crown lands were left to solve the problem locally, which is why issues like this one exist at the level of individual townships rather than provincial or national authorities.
The print run of over 12 million is striking for a community of this size and suggests the notes circulated well beyond Vöcklamarkt itself — regional Notgeld often traded across neighboring towns as a de facto substitute for federal coinage that simply wasn't reaching rural areas.