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25 Heller
| Issuer | Ulrichsberg, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 66 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | Ochre and tan underprint on cream paper with a serrated border. The large numeral "25" is set at the top centre, flanked left by the validity clause "GILT BIS 31. XII. 1920" and right by the counterfeiting warning "NACHAHMUNG WIRD BESTRAFT". The word "NOTGELD" appears in bold Gothic lettering at the top, with "FÜNFUNDZWANZIG HELLER" in large display type across the centre field. The issuing municipality and date "ULRICHSBERG (O.Ö.) 5.V.20" appear along the lower margin, accompanied by two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | OBERNHOF 25 HELLER 25 |
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Ulrichsberg is a small market town in Upper Austria's Böhmerwald region, and this 25 Heller Notgeld note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to produce their own emergency scrip, and hundreds of communities — including ones as minor as Ulrichsberg — contracted local printers or produced notes through communal initiative to keep daily commerce functioning.
The JPR1091a designation places it within the Jaksch cataloguing of Austrian Notgeld, a series notorious for the sheer volume of issuing authorities and the inconsistency of surviving quantities between variants.