20 Heller Abstetten

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.