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20 Heller Atzenbrugg
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Atzenbrugg (Commune of Atzenbrugg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper in a Jugendstil-influenced letterpress style, the obverse is divided into two principal fields. The left panel bears an oval portrait vignette of composer Franz Schubert within an ornate pen-work frame, with an inscription below commemorating his stays in Atzenbrugg between 1820 and 1828 and the unveiling of the memorial on 31 May 1908. The right panel carries the denomination '20 Heller' at upper right within a ruled cartouche, beneath which the text 'Gut-Schein der Ortsgemeinde Atzenbrugg' is set in bold Gothic blackletter script, with multiple manuscript signatures across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | Kassenschein der Ortsgemeinde Atzenbrugg über / Zwanzig Heller. / Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Ortsgemeinde Atzenbrugg Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 10.000 Kronen aus. Dieselben sind unverzinslich, werden von der Ortsgemeinde Atzenbrugg bis 31. Dezember 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. / Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. / Die Ortsgemeinde Atzenbrugg haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type was issued by hundreds of municipalities in 1920 to address a chronic small-change shortage — federal coinage simply wasn't being produced fast enough to meet demand. Atzenbrugg, a small village in Lower Austria, issued its own series through the Ortsgemeinde, the local commune authority, as legally permitted under emergency provisions.
The Jaksc catalogue reference places this squarely within the first major wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld, before the hyperinflationary issues of 1921–22 made the whole exercise futile. Heller-denominated pieces were redeemed or cancelled relatively quickly once federal supply stabilized.