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20 Heller Ostermiething
| Issuer | Ostermiething, Municipality of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain pinkish-beige paper stock printed entirely in dark blue letterpress ink. A simple rectangular border with ornamental corner flourishes frames the text-only design, with the denomination numeral '20' enclosed within an oval cartouche at left. The issuing municipality name appears in large bold capitals at the top, with the validity date and mayoral authorization printed below in smaller text. |
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| Obverse lettering | OSTERMIETHING 20 HELLER Gültig bis 31. Oktober 1920 Der Bürgermeister: Lladlbauer (Translation: OSTERMIETHING 20 HELLER Valid until October 31, 1920 The Mayor: Lladlbauer) |
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Ostermiething is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria between roughly 1916 and 1921. These small-denomination Heller notes filled a gap that the central monetary authorities in Vienna were too overwhelmed to address, with metal diverted to the war effort and small change effectively vanishing from daily commerce.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was produced locally or through small regional printers, with quality varying enormously from one town to the next. Ostermiething's issues are among the more obscure in the corpus — not widely collected, not widely documented.