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| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Windhaag bei Perg |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted notgeld on paper with a decorative black letterpress border of scrollwork and foliate ornaments enclosing the text field. A central oval cartouche in black carries the denomination numeral '20' in white, flanked by the issuing authority legend in calligraphic script. The lower portion contains the redemption obligation text in German Gothic lettering, beneath which three manuscript signatures appear above their respective role designations. |
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| Reverse description | Pink-tinted paper with a black letterpress vignette occupying the right two-thirds of the field, illustrating a panoramic rural landscape with a church tower and village rooftops set among rolling hills and trees. To the left, a decorative cartouche in black carries the denomination '20 Heller' at the top and the issuer inscription below in Gothic lettering. A small printer's imprint appears in the lower centre margin below the border. |
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Austrian Notgeld issued by the Marktgemeinde Windhaag bei Perg — a small market commune in Upper Austria — almost certainly dates to the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria between roughly 1920 and 1921, when hoarding of metal coinage left municipal authorities scrambling to produce local substitutes. Hundreds of communes did the same, and the Jaksch/Pick Notgeld catalogues document the resulting flood of locally printed paper in denominations as small as 10 Heller.
The 20 Heller denomination sits at the lower functional edge of daily transaction value for the period.