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20 Heller Eggelsberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eggelsberg (Municipality of Eggelsberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | In folgenschwerer Zeit 20 Schloss Jhrn GUTSCHEIN Dem Samlersport zur Ehr Dem Kleingeldmangel zur Wehr Die Gemeinde Eggelsberg haftet und löst diesen Gutschein vom 1. bis 31. December 1920 in gesetzl. gangbarem Gelde ein. Der Bürgermeister: F. Weiss. Nimm Notgeld bereit |
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| Reverse lettering | Burg Ihm (nach einem Kupferstich von Wening). Urkundlich 1160 Edelsitz des Ministerialgeschlechtes Wernhardt von Iden, auf kegelförmigem Hügel zwischen Häratinger- und Seeleitnerseen am nördlichen Rande des Ibmermooses, Gemde. Eggelsberg. 20 Zwanzig Heller 20 Die Gemeinde Eggelsberg gibt mit Genehmigung der Landesregierung Linz vom 19. Juni 1920 Gutscheine aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit der Einlösung in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung der Gutscheine wird gesetzlich bestraft. Eggelsberg, 1. August 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Franz Weiß. |
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Eggelsberg is a small village in Upper Austria, and this note is a product of the catastrophic currency fragmentation that followed Austria-Hungary's dissolution. By 1920, the new Austrian Republic was hemorrhaging small coins — hoarding and metal shortages had stripped them entirely from everyday commerce — forcing hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency Kleingeld. Eggelsberg's series was among thousands issued under this system, known as Notgeld.
The designer credit to L. Haase is worth noting; local Notgeld was frequently farmed out to regional printers or commercial artists rather than produced in-house, though attribution details for Haase remain thin.