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20 Heller Amstetten
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Amstetten (City Municipality of Amstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Zwanzig Heller 20 20 Die Stadtgemeinde Amstetten gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 60.000 K aus. (G.-R.-B. 9./12. 1919.) Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dez. 1920 bei der Stadtkasse in gesetzl. Bargelde eingelöst. Amstetten, am 1. Jänner 1920 C. Queiser, Amstetten |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Amstetten Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920. 20 20 Zwanzig Heller Die Stadtgemeinde Amstetten haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Vizebürgermeister Der Bürgermeister Der Finanzreferent: |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this type emerged from a very specific supply failure: the central government could not produce enough small-denomination coinage after the war, so hundreds of towns printed their own emergency pfennig and heller notes under implicit official tolerance. Amstetten's issue was printed locally by C. Queiser, a small regional press — exactly the kind of arrangement that produced enormous variation in quality across the notgeld corpus. By 1920 the heller was already sliding toward irrelevance as postwar inflation accelerated, meaning many of these circulated only briefly before the denomination itself became worthless.