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20 Heller Au an der Donau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Au an der Donau (Municipality of Au an der Donau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 HELLER GEMEINDE AU a.d.D. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Au a.d. Donau gibt Gutscheine im Betrage von 50,000 K aus und löst diese 4 Wochen nach Verlautbarung in gesetzl. Bargeld ein. Nachahmung wird bestraft. Au a. D., am 30. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Josef Carl Luftensteiner. 1. Vizebürgermeister: Karl Beinhackl. 2. Vizebürgermeister: Georg Achleitner. Buchdruckerei Eane |
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Au an der Donau is a small Upper Austrian municipality that, like hundreds of similar communes, resorted to printing its own fractional emergency currency after the post-WWI coin shortage left daily commerce functionally impossible. These Gemeinde-issued Heller notes — Austria's so-called Notgeld — were strictly local instruments, valid only within the issuing community and typically redeemable for a limited window before being voided. Three municipal signatures were required for this series: the Bürgermeister and both Vizebürgermeister, a formality that gave the paper a thin veneer of institutional authority.
Buchdruckerei Eane handled the printing — a local trade press, not a specialist security printer, which shows in the production quality typical of rural Austrian Notgeld of this period.