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20 Heller Altlengbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altlengbach (Municipality of Altlengbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Eduard Sieger, Wien |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Altlengbach 20 Heller Die Gemeinde Altlengbach haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Altlengbach, am 16. Mai 1920 Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: Der geschäftsführende Gemeinderat: |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Altlengbach. 20 Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Altlengbach unverzinsliche Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrag von 40,000 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 like hundreds of similar municipalities during the early 1920s, it issued Notgeld to plug the hole left by a chronic shortage of metallic coinage in postwar Austria. The Heller denominations were the workhorses of this emergency issue — too small to be of serious monetary consequence, but essential for everyday retail transactions that larger denominations couldn't handle.
Eduard Sieger was a Vienna-based printer responsible for a substantial volume of municipal Notgeld across Lower Austria in this period. The JPR0033c designation within the Jaksc catalog indicates this is one of several variants within the Altlengbach series.