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20 Heller Ansfelden
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ansfelden (Commune of Ansfelden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gem. Ansfelden 20 Heller. Unterrichtsgebäude der Landesackerbauschule Ritzlhof! |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue on cream paper within a plain ruled rectangular border, with repeating numeral '20' columns running vertically along both side margins. The denomination 'ZWANZIG' appears in spaced capitals at the top, flanked by small ornamental rosettes, and 'HELLER' in bold spaced capitals at the foot. The central text panel contains the redemption pledge in German, the place and date of issue 'Ansfelden, 6. Mai 1920', and the manuscript facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister below the printed title 'Der Bürgermeister:'. A small printer's monogram cartouche is visible at lower left. |
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Ansfelden's 20 Heller notgeld was issued during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years, when the collapse of the Habsburg economy stripped small-denomination metal from everyday circulation almost entirely. Thousands of Austrian municipalities issued their own emergency paper in this period — Ansfelden among the smallest of them, a rural commune south of Linz with no particular monetary infrastructure of its own.
The Jaksch reference places this squarely in the documented Austrian local notgeld corpus, but commune-level issues from villages this size were rarely printed in large runs, and redemption records are essentially nonexistent.