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20 Heller Annaberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Annaberg (Municipality of Annaberg, Lower Austria) |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Pink-tinted notgeld printed in dark red on plain paper, divided into two vertical panels by a ruled border. The left panel carries the issuing authority text in Fraktur blackletter script above the large denomination numeral '20' set within a decorative cartouche, with 'HELLER' inscribed on a ribbon banner below. The right panel presents a circular landscape vignette bordered by a floral wreath, showing a panoramic view of the Annaberg village with the Ötscher mountain peak labelled above; the imprint 'Reith N.Oe.' appears below the vignette, and '2. Auflage' (second issue) is noted at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper printed in dark purple with a scalloped decorative border enclosing a block of Fraktur text setting out the redemption conditions, stating that the Municipality of Annaberg issues these vouchers to alleviate the small-change shortage and will redeem them in legal currency until 15 September 1920, followed by the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung wird bestraft.' A manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister (mayor) appears below the title 'Der Bürgermeister:', and the printer's imprint is set at the foot outside the border. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld from the post-WWI period, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities printing their own fractional notes to cover the chronic coin shortage. Annaberg is a small village in the Türnitz Alps; the fact that even settlements of this size were issuing their own emergency money reflects how comprehensively the central banking infrastructure had broken down by 1918–1919.
F. Seitenberg operated out of Vienna's third district and handled numerous small Gemeinde notgeld commissions during this period — a jobbing printer rather than a specialist security press.