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20 Heller
| Issuer | Kellerstube des Stiftes Göttweig (Abbey of Göttweig) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Kellerstube des Stiftes Göttweig Zwanzig Heller 20 |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein 20 Heller Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot herausgegeben von der Kellerstube des Stiftes Göttweig. Einlösungstermin 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung verboten. 3. Auflage. P. Ludwig Koller. |
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Göttweig Abbey, a Benedictine house on a hill above the Danube near Krems, issued this Heller note as part of Austria's widespread Notgeld phenomenon — the emergency small-change currency that exploded after the First World War when coin metal vanished and the central government couldn't keep up. By 1920, thousands of Austrian municipalities, businesses, and institutions were printing their own. The Kellerstube reference is specific: this was issued by the abbey's own wine cellar establishment, not the monastic administration broadly.
Signed by P. Ludwig Koller, a monk rather than a banker. That detail alone separates this from the municipal issues.