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20 Heller Vorchdorf
| Issuer | Vorchdorf, Municipality of |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Fret'n in Nöt'n Gutschein der Gemeinde Vorchdorf Einlosefrist 31.Dez.1920 der Burgermeister: (Translation: Voucher from the community of Vorchdorf Redemption period 31.Dec.1920 The Mayor:) |
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| 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.