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20 Heller Vorchdorf
| Issuer | Vorchdorf, Municipality of |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue on cream paper and presents a letterpress landscape vignette of the Messenbach hamlet as it appeared circa 1600, with a cluster of period buildings and farmsteads set amid dense foliage in the foreground and a dramatic Alpine massif rising steeply in the background. The composition is enclosed within a double ruled rectangular frame, with the caption inscription below the vignette and the printer's imprint at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Messenbach um 1600. SALZKAMMERGUT-DRUCKEREI GMUNDEN (Translation: Messenbach around 1600. Salzkammergut Printing Company Gmunden) |
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Vorchdorf is a market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during the First World War, it was forced to issue its own emergency small change — Notgeld — when coin disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1914. The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden supplied many of these local issues across the lake district, which accounts for the family resemblance between several Upper Austrian pieces of this type.
The 20 Heller denomination was the workhorse of Austrian municipal Notgeld, used for the smallest everyday transactions that metal coinage had previously handled.