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10 Heller Eschenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eschenau (Municipality of Eschenau, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Woodcut-style vignette printed in dark blue ink on buff paper, centred on a rural harvest scene with two agricultural labourers flanking a large basket of produce atop a barrel, set against a clouded landscape with fields and a distant village. Denomination numerals '10' appear in ornamental cartouches at upper left and right, each inscribed 'Heller' on a banner beneath, while the issuing authority legend in Gothic blackletter reads 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Eschenau' across the top with 'Ob. Öst.' below. A four-line dialect verse in Gothic script runs along the lower margin, and the designer's name 'Döblmaler' is inscribed below the border at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper within a scalloped single-rule border enclosing a full-text legal declaration in centred, justified Gothic blackletter script. The text records the municipal council resolution of 30 May 1920 authorising the issue of Notgeld to a total value of 30,000 Kronen, guaranteed by the full active assets of the municipality and redeemable in lawful currency between 1 and 31 March 1921, with a counterfeiting warning at the foot. The note concludes with the printed signature of the Bürgermeister, Michl Edetsberger, in bold Gothic type. |
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Eschenau is a small market town in the Pielach valley, and like hundreds of Lower Austrian municipalities in the early 1920s it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage after the First World War. These local issues were administratively sanctioned but entirely parochial: valid only within the issuing community, backed by nothing more than local authority, and often redeemed within months.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 in catalog records almost certainly reflects a documentation date, not the issue date — the note itself dates to 1920, well within the main Austrian Notgeld wave.