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20 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Pottendorf (Market Town of Pottendorf, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress on buff card stock. Left vignette shows a Gothic church with spire amid trees within a rectangular frame; right panel bears the denomination numeral '20' in a circle between 'HEL' and 'LER', with oak-leaf corner ornaments. Central text reads 'Gut-Schein der Marktgemeinde Pottendorf' in Gothic script, with validity notice and two manuscript signatures below. |
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| Obverse lettering | HELLER 20 Gut-Schein der Marktgemeinde Pottendorf Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung dieses Gutscheines wird bestraft! BÜRGERMEISTER Vize-Bürgermeister GemeindeR. |
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Pottendorf's 20 Heller Notgeld belongs to the vast wave of emergency municipal scrip issued across Austria between 1919 and 1921, when chronic coin shortages following the collapse of the Habsburg economy left small communities unable to make change. The Marktgemeinde — a market town with textile manufacturing roots going back to the 18th century — issued this note under the same legal framework that permitted hundreds of Lower Austrian municipalities to print their own low-denomination paper.
Jaksch catalog number 772 places it firmly within the documented Lower Austrian series. These small-town issues were often printed in short runs and redeemed quickly, which makes intact survivors more common in collector holdings than in any record of actual daily use.