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20 Heller Abstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Abstetten (Municipality of Abstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Cream paper with a wavy-rule decorative border frame enclosing all text. At the top, a two-line motto in italic script is set apart. The main body carries redemption terms in Gothic and italic script, stating the note is redeemable at the municipal treasury between 15 and 31 December 1920, with the denomination '20 Heller ö. W.' centred and flanked by rule lines. A closing statement confirms that a cover deposit has been lodged and that counterfeiting is punishable by law, followed by the place and date and the mayor's signature line. |
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| Signature(s) | J. Brandsteidl |
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Abstetten is a small village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities it issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the postwar period when coin metal was hoarded and official small denominations vanished from circulation. The 1920 date places this firmly in the second wave of Austrian Gemeinde Notgeld, after the initial wartime issues and before the hyperinflationary collapse rendered such denominations meaningless anyway.
Signed by J. Brandsteidl, almost certainly the Bürgermeister at the time. Village-level signatories are rarely documented in any source beyond the notes themselves.