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20 Heller Eschenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eschenau (Municipality of Eschenau, Lower Austria) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Eschenau 20 HELLER Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in violet on cream paper, the reverse carries a bold denomination statement 'Zwanzig 20 Heller' across the top in large mixed Roman and Gothic type. Below, a block of centred text sets out the municipality's redemption guarantee, followed by an anti-counterfeiting warning in smaller type. The whole composition is enclosed within a decorative Art Nouveau border of interlocking oval and scroll motifs with corner embellishments. |
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Eschenau is a small market commune in the Pielach valley, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. These local emergency issues were authorized under wartime and postwar administrative necessity, not by the national banking system — Gemeinde Eschenau had no more monetary authority than its stamped paper implied, which was very little.
The JPR0186c series designation places this among the documented Lower Austrian communal issues catalogued by Jaksch. The 20 Heller denomination was the workhorse value of Austrian municipal Notgeld, produced in quantities that make surviving examples common but render fine condition ones harder to locate than the raw numbers suggest.