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20 Heller Amstetten, Schutzverein Antisemitenbund
| Issuer | Ortsgruppe Amstetten des Deutschen Österreichischen Schutzvereines Antisemitenbund |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in orange in vertical orientation, the note bears a central vignette of seven named Austrian newspapers — condemned as Judenpresse (Jewish press) — consumed in flames. The denomination is set in numerals on either side of the vignette, with multi-line Gothic-script text above and below. A date and two manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Es wird ein Moment kommen, in dem alle chriſtlichen Nationen, mit denen der Jude zuſammenlebt, aner⸗ kennen, daß die Frage, ob der Jude zu be⸗ laſſen iſt, oder aus⸗ zuweiſen ſei, für ſie eine ſolche wird, die man als eine auf Tod und Leben bezeichnet. Franz Liſzt. (Translation: There will come a moment in all Christian nations, when those with Jews living alongside them ac- knowledge that the question of whether the Jews be left alone or de- ported, is for them a matter of life and death. Franz Liszt.) |
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The Antisemitenbund was a Pan-German antisemitic organization active in Austria after the First World War, and it was unusual — though not unique — for political associations to issue their own emergency small change during the Notgeld period. Austria's acute coin shortage between roughly 1919 and 1922 gave any organization with a rubber stamp and a printer a plausible excuse to circulate paper fractions of a Krone. That this particular issuer was a regional chapter of an explicitly racial-nationalist league makes it among the more ideologically charged pieces in the Austrian Notgeld corpus.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0038-20 places it firmly within documented Austrian political Notgeld, not a forgery or a later propaganda reproduction — a distinction worth confirming before attribution.