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25 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Hargelsberg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Tan and brown Notgeld voucher with a fine guilloche underprint throughout. A vertical left panel carries an Art Nouveau floral and foliate vignette in darker brown, beside a white rectangular cartouche bearing the bold numeral '25' and the denomination 'Heller' in Gothic blackletter type. To the right, the text 'Gutschein über' is set in ornate Kurrent script above a central decorative cartouche enclosing the value inscription 'FÜNFUNDZWANZIG HELLER' in capital letters, with the issuer legend 'Ortsgemeinde der Hargelsberg' in sweeping blackletter script below. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Edlmaier |
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Hargelsberg is a small Upper Austrian village — its population at the time of issue would have been in the low hundreds. That a commune this size produced its own notgeld in 1920 reflects how completely the Austrian postwar currency system had broken down, with municipalities and even individual businesses stepping in to cover the chronic small-denomination shortage left by wartime metal requisitions and inflationary hoarding.
Josef Edlmaier's signature as issuing authority — almost certainly the Bürgermeister — gives this note its only claim to local accountability. The Jaksch cataloguing suffix "llc" indicates this belongs to a sub-variant grouping, likely distinguished by ink color or serial placement.