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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gneixendorf (Municipality of Gneixendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet-blue on cream paper, the note carries the title inscription 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde Gneixendorf' in Gothic blackletter at the top centre. The central vignette presents a detailed line-art view of the Beethoven memorial stone in Gneixendorf, surrounded by rocks, shrubbery and trees, with the caption 'BEETHOVENDENKMAL IN GNEIXENDORF NACHST KREMS' below. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in large Gothic numerals in each of the four corners, flanked by decorative wreath vignettes on the left and right panels, with facsimile signatures of municipal officials below the central scene. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Gemeinde Gneixendorf 20 Heller BEETHOVENDENKMAL IN GNEIXENDORF NACHST KREMS Bürgermeister Vice-Bürgermeister Geschäftsführender Gemeinderat |
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Gneixendorf is a small village — now a suburb of Krems an der Donau in Lower Austria — that would be entirely obscure were it not for the fact that Beethoven spent his final autumn there in 1826, finishing the String Quartet Op. 135 at his brother Johann's estate. The village's notgeld has nothing to do with that connection; it was issued purely out of necessity during the acute coin shortage that swept rural Austria in the postwar years, when municipal and local authorities across the former empire printed their own emergency small-denomination paper rather than see commerce grind to a halt.
The Jaksc cataloguing suffix "llc" indicates a specific variant within the 20 Heller denomination — most Gneixendorf notgeld series are collected as sets, and incomplete runs are common.