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20 Heller Eschenau im Pinzgau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eschenau im Pinzgau (Municipality of Eschenau im Pinzgau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Eschenau im Pinzgau 20 Dieses Ersatzgeld verliert seine Giltigkeit, wenn es nicht innerhalb vier Wochen nach der erfolgten öffentlichen Bekanntmachung bei der Gemeindekasse von Eschenau zur Einlösung gebracht wird. |
| Reverse description | Plain green and blue bicolour reverse with a double-ruled decorative border and ornamental corner vignettes of stylised foliage in olive-green underprint. The central field is occupied by a cartouche with a crosshatch guilloche background, containing the full authorisation text in Gothic script, the issue date 'Gemeinde Eschenau, am 18. Juli 1920', and three manuscript signature lines for the Bürgermeister and two Gemeinderäte. An anti-counterfeiting warning is printed at the foot. |
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Eschenau im Pinzgau is a small village in the Salzburg region of Austria, and this 20 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian municipalities during and after the First World War when small-denomination coins disappeared almost entirely from circulation. The Austro-Hungarian wartime metal requisitions, followed by the collapse of the Empire, left communities of every size scrambling to produce their own emergency fractional currency. Thousands of municipalities obliged — Eschenau among them.
The Jaksc catalog documents this as the only denomination confirmed for this issuer, which suggests a very limited local emission rather than a coordinated series.