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| Issuer | Kurortsgemeinde Bad Ischl (Spa Town of Bad Ischl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in dark brown ink throughout in a Gothic blackletter typeface. The upper portion carries the issuer's title within a rectangular border with rounded corners, flanked by numeral '5' vignettes at each corner, with validity inscription below. The denomination 'Fünf Heller' is set in large ornamental script across the centre, beneath which a full-width text panel contains the legal obligation clause and three facsimile manuscript signatures with their respective titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Kurortsgemeinde Bad Ischl gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 60.000 Kronen aus. G.-R.-B. 1.3.1920. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Bad Ischl, am 6. April 1920. |
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Bad Ischl's notgeld issues of 1920 belong to the second wave of Austrian emergency municipal coinage — by this point the chronic small-change shortage had pushed hundreds of spa towns, market communes, and industrial districts into printing their own fractional paper. Bad Ischl had particular motivation: as the former summer residence of Franz Joseph I, it depended heavily on tourist traffic, and a functioning petty-cash economy mattered more there than in comparable towns.
The JPR0077b series designation indicates a second variant within the Bad Ischl 1920 run — likely a color or printing difference from the 'a' type, though both are scarce in collector-grade condition given the disposable nature of Heller-denomination notgeld.