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20 Heller Altlengbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altlengbach (Municipality of Altlengbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note carries the denomination numeral '20' in a bold blackletter typeface within a decorative frame, followed by 'Heller.' in large script, with a three-line guarantee text in German Gothic hand below, reading that the Gemeinde Altlengbach pledges its movable and immovable assets. The date 'Altlengbach, am 15. Mai 1920' appears beneath the guarantee text, followed by three manuscript signatures with their respective titles. The right half is occupied by a finely executed letterpress vignette of the village of Altlengbach, with the parish church spire rising above wooded hillside terrain, enclosed within an ornamental border of stylised oak-leaf motifs; the printer's imprint 'Eduard Sieger, Wien' appears at the lower right margin. The heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Altlengbach' is set in decorative blackletter script across the full width of the upper margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Altlengbach. 20 20 Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Altlengbach unverzinsliche Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrag von 21.000 K aus. Diese werden von der Gemeinde Altlengbach bis 31. Dezember 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 15. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird bestraft. |
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Altlengbach is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the old imperial currency in freefall and central banking infrastructure in disarray following the collapse of the Habsburg administration, hundreds of Gemeinden issued their own emergency fractions — not as monetary policy but as a practical fix for the chronic shortage of small change.
Eduard Sieger of Vienna handled a significant volume of this municipal Notgeld work, printing for communities across Lower Austria. His output was generally competent commercial work rather than the elaborately artistic Notgeld produced for the collector market by some other Austrian printers of the period.