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20 Heller Biedermannsdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Biedermannsdorf (Municipality of Biedermannsdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress on a grey guilloche underprint covering the entire note. The central vignette presents a line-art view of the Biedermannsdorf parish church with its tower at right and a rural building with trees at left. Denomination numerals '20' appear in circular cartouches at both the left and right margins, each inscribed 'HELLER' beneath, while the issuing authority's title runs across the top in Gothic script and the validity text, expiry date, and three manuscript signatures are placed centrally above the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Biedermannsdorf Bez. Mödling Gutschein über zwanzig Heller Die Gültigkeit dieses Gutscheines erlischt am 15 Juli 1920 20 HELLER NAHMAHLUNG STAATBANK SITZUNGS-BESCHLUSS 2. JUNI 1920 |
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Biedermannsdorf is a small municipality south of Vienna, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria immediately after the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local communities unable to obtain sufficient coin, forcing hundreds of individual Gemeinden to issue their own emergency paper — Notgeld — during 1920 and 1921. Biedermannsdorf was one of the smallest communities to do so.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this in the broader Austrian local Notgeld corpus, but municipal issues at this scale were rarely printed in large quantities and saw genuine day-to-day use before the stabilization of the Austrian crown made them redundant.