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20 Heller Hohenberg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Hohenberg (Market Town of Hohenberg) |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet on plain paper, the note carries a decorative border of stylised floral and geometric motifs enclosing the central design. A composite heraldic vignette — comprising two flanking shields and a central crowned escutcheon bearing a mountain landscape — occupies the middle of the field, with the bold denomination numerals '20' and the legend 'HELLER' printed twice in large type to either side. The validity clause 'Giltig is 31. Dezember 1920' appears at upper left, while an indemnity text and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials are placed in the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE HOHENBERG Giltig is 31. Dezember 1920 20 HELLER Die Gemeinde haftet für die richtige Einlösung mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: Jede Nachahmung wird bestraft Druck von F. WURST in LILIENFELD |
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Hohenberg is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities during and after the First World War, when coin shortages made small-denomination scrip an everyday necessity. F. Wurst of nearby Lilienfeld was a regional printer who handled several such commissions for Lower Austrian communities — not a specialist currency printer, which occasionally shows in the registration and ink consistency of surviving examples.
The JPR0388IIb designation places this within the Jaksch cataloguing of Austrian local emergency money, the "IIb" suffix indicating a specific paper or print variant within the Hohenberg series.