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20 Heller Atzenbrugg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Atzenbrugg (Commune of Atzenbrugg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | The face is arranged in three vertical panels within a ruled decorative border: the left panel bears a standing portrait vignette of Franz Schubert with legends SCHUBERT and MUSIK below; the central panel presents a letterpress landscape vignette of the village of Atzenbrugg with a bridge and trees, captioned FRANZ SCHUBERT'S above and RUHE-PLATZCHEN below; the right panel carries the denomination 20 HELLER in bold type within an octagonal frame. The lower portion of the face bears the Gutschein legend GUTSCHEIN der Gemeinde Atzenbrugg, flanked by three manuscript signatures with their respective titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | II. Auflage. 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 15. Oktober 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 1. bis 15. Oktober 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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Atzenbrugg is a small Lower Austrian village better known to musicologists than to collectors — Franz Schubert spent several summers there in the early 1820s as a guest of his friend Franz von Schober. The commune's 1920 notgeld issue has nothing to do with that, but it does reflect the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria after the collapse of the Habsburg economy in 1918. Municipal and private issuers across the country produced their own emergency pfennig-range denominations because the central authorities simply couldn't supply enough coin.
Locally printed notgeld from villages this size rarely survived in quantity. The paper stock used by small communes was often thin and poorly sized.