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20 Heller Obritzberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Obritzberg (Municipality of Obritzberg) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue-green ink on cream paper, the obverse is headed by a Gothic-script legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Obritzberg N.Ö.' above a validity line reading 'Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920.', with the denomination '20 Heller' set within a decorative ruled frame to the left and a counterfeiting warning below. A fine line-engraved landscape vignette occupies the central panel, rendering a hilltop church and village buildings amid rolling fields and trees, enclosed within a double-rule border. A manuscript Bürgermeister signature completes the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Obritzberg N.Ö. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. 20 Heller Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Obritzberg is a small Lower Austrian village, and this 20 Heller note is one of the thousands of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues that flooded circulation after the Habsburg crown collapsed and small coinage vanished entirely from everyday commerce. The printer, Bo Mer of St. Pölten, handled a number of these regional emergency pieces from the surrounding Pölten district — a practical arrangement given the urgency and the need for local accountability over the notes' redeemability.
The Jaksc catalog reference places it firmly within the documented Austrian communal series, though Obritzberg's issue is among the more obscure entries in that corpus.