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20 Heller Fahrafeld
| Issuer | Gemeinde Fahrafeld (Kasten bei St. Pölten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher printed in olive-green, pink, and brown tones on cream paper, with an ornate geometric and floral guilloche rosette at centre. Two labour figures flank the central text field: at left, a ploughman working the land with a church visible in the background; at right, a factory worker with industrial chimneys behind him, evoking agricultural and industrial themes. Denomination discs reading '20' appear in the upper corners, and the designer's name 'HITSCH' is inscribed in the lower left margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gefertigten haften für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen und haften mit ihrem beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen Das Ende der Gültigkeitsdauer wird vier Wochen vorher öffentlich verlautbart werden Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft |
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Fahrafeld is a small locality within the municipality of Kasten bei St. Pölten in Lower Austria. This 20 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian communes in 1920, when chronic small-change shortages following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system forced even minor village administrations to print their own emergency currency. The designer credit "Hitsch" appears on this local issue — almost certainly a regional commercial artist rather than a professional banknote engraver.
Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0193-20 places it firmly within the documented Lower Austrian series, though survival rates for rural Heller notes of this type vary considerably by commune.