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20 Heller Edlbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Edlbach (Municipality of Edlbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 1 July 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note framed by an ornate guilloche border, with a vertical vignette at left composed of agricultural and military trophies — scythe, rifle, and foliage — flanked on both side margins by the validity inscription repeated vertically. The denomination '20' occupies a cartouche at upper centre, with 'Heller' in gothic Fraktur script immediately below, followed by a three-line municipal guarantee text naming the Gemeinde Edlbach as issuer and concluding with the printed signature of the Gemeindevorsteher. A counterfeiting warning runs along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Notgeld der Gemeinde Edlbach 20 Giltig bis 1. Juli 1921 Zieh' hinaus nun, unters Volk Und bringe Allen Glück, Auch bringe, wenn du wiederkehrst, Die bess're Zeit zurück. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. NORBERTUS-DRUCKEREI, WIEN, III. |
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Edlbach is a small village in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities from 1919 onward — a direct consequence of the postwar coin shortage that left even minor rural communes issuing their own fractional paper. The Norbertus-Druckerei was a Vienna print house with ecclesiastical ties, operating out of the third district, and handled a fair number of these small-commune commissions during the period.
JPR0150a distinguishes this as the first type for the denomination. Edlbach's total issue volume was negligible, which makes attrition the primary enemy of surviving examples.