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20 Heller Eschenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eschenau (Municipality of Eschenau, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Eschenau 20 HELLER Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is enclosed within a bold Art Nouveau ornamental frame of interlaced foliate scrollwork at the corners and sides, printed in dark red on cream paper. At the top, the denomination 'Zwanzig 20 Heller' is set in large display type. Below, a centred text block in Roman type states the municipality's guarantee of redemption and warns against counterfeiting. |
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Eschenau is a small market town in the Wienerwald district of Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities in the early 1920s, it issued its own Notgeld to address the acute small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. These hyper-local emergency issues were authorized under regional frameworks that gave individual Gemeinden considerable latitude — hence the proliferation of notes down to denominations as low as 10 Heller.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field in this record is almost certainly a modern cataloguing or data-entry anomaly, not a genuine print date — this series belongs firmly to the 1920–1921 Austrian Notgeld wave.