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20 Heller Anzbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Anzbach (Municipality of Anzbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green letterpress notgeld printed on plain paper, with an Art Nouveau-style floral and foliate border framing a central landscape vignette of a stone arch bridge with rolling hills and trees in the background. The denomination tab at right reads '20 HELLER' within an ornamental panel, while the issuer name 'ANZBACH' appears in bold blackletter script at the foot of the vignette above the value inscription 'ÜBER ZWANZIG HELLER'. Three manuscript signature lines for the Bürgermeister and two Vizebürgermeister are present in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with typeset text in black ink arranged in a centred block layout. The heading 'GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE ANZBACH ÜBER 20 HELLER' is set in large bold capitals, followed by a full German-language redemption notice stating the voucher bears no interest and is redeemable in legal tender between 15 December 1920 and 15 January 1921, with a counterfeiting warning. The imprint 'CHWALA'S DRUCK, WIEN VII. ZIEGLERG. 61' appears at the foot, and the edition designation '2. AUFLAGE.' is printed centrally above the notice text. |
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Anzbach is a small village in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left communities chronically short of small change, forcing even minor villages to issue their own emergency currency — legally permitted under postwar Austrian law, if only briefly.
Chwala's Druck, operating out of Vienna's 7th district, handled a considerable volume of these municipal commissions. The printing is competent but plainly commercial work, not the elaborately artistic Notgeld that German towns were simultaneously producing for the collector market.