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20 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Greifenstein a/d. Donau (Municipality of Greifenstein on the Danube, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein für Zwanzig Heller 20 20 Die Gemeinde Greifenstein an der Donau haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen. Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Gemeinderat Bürgermeister Vizebürgermeister Greifenstein a/s. D. |
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| Reverse lettering | Heller 20 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Greifenstein a/s. D. Laut Gemeinderatsbeschluß gibt die Gemeinde Greifenstein a/d. D. Gutscheine zu 10, 20 und 50 Heller aus und wird dieselben bis 31. Dez. 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde einlösen Die Nachahmung dieses Gutscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft Nur die mit dem Gemeindefiegel versehenen Gutscheine haben Gültigkeit Greifenstein a/d. D., am 30. Juni 1920 |
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Greifenstein is a tiny Danube village in Lower Austria, and this 1920 Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities when the collapsing Habsburg monetary system left communities without adequate small change. Communes of almost any size — many with populations under a thousand — were legally permitted to issue their own emergency currency, and Greifenstein did exactly that.
Designer N. Dellware appears on a small number of Lower Austrian Notgeld issues from this period, though documentation on the individual is thin. The official municipal seal served as the primary authentication device, a telling sign of how improvised these instruments were.