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20 Heller Aschbach
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aschbach (Market Town of Aschbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on cream paper within a geometric letterpress border with corner ornaments. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large bold type at both the left and right edges, flanking the central heading 'Zwanzig Heller' in Gothic blackletter. The body of the note contains a full-text legal declaration in German Fraktur script, stating that the Markt Aschbach issues Notgeld notes of 10, 20, and 50 Heller by council resolution of 8 April 1920 for fifty thousand Kronen, redeemable in legal tender by 31 December 1920, with a counterfeiting warning. The designer credit 'Entwurf: Erwin Strondl.' appears at the top margin, and the printer's imprint 'Druck von F. Kielar, Amstetten.' is printed at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | L. Schürz (Vizebürgermeister), Jos. Rörlinger (Der Bürgermeister), and J. Waltenhofer (Gemeinderat) |
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Austrian Notgeld at the municipal level rarely gets more local than this. Aschbach-Markt, a small Lower Austrian town on the main rail line between Linz and Vienna, issued these fractional emergency notes because the postwar coin shortage left communities without viable small change — a problem acute enough that hundreds of Austrian Gemeinden printed their own paper between 1919 and 1921. Three signatories were required: the Bürgermeister, his deputy, and a Gemeinderat member, each signing by hand, which made large print runs logistically awkward.
F. Kielar of Amstetten — barely fifteen kilometers west of Aschbach — handled the printing, a practical choice that kept costs and transit minimal. Erwin Strondl is credited as designer.