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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Puchberg im Machland (Municipality of Puchberg, Upper Austria) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey Gutschein printed in letterpress on plain paper with perforated edges. Central oval vignette encloses a townscape with a church and hillside buildings, framed by ornate acanthus scrollwork with radiating lines above. Denomination '20' upper left and 'H' upper right; issuer legend 'GUTSCHEIN D. Gemeinde PUCHBERG' in stylized script at foot. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Puchberg im Machland is a small agricultural commune in Upper Austria, and this Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency money — Notgeld — issued from 1919 onward as postwar coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. Hundreds of villages issued their own, and most circulated only within the issuing community, redeemable at the local Gemeindekasse. The official stamp was the primary — often the only — authentication mechanism these municipalities had available.
The Jaksch catalogue documents over a thousand such Austrian issues. Puchberg's entry is among the more obscure ones.