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20 Heller Ferschnitz
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ferschnitz (Municipality of Ferschnitz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE FERSCHNITZ BEZIRK · MELK ZWANZIG HELLER 20 GÜLTIG BIS EINSCHL. 31. DEZEMBER 1920 DER BÜRGERMEISTER: GEMEINDE FERSCHNITZ NIEDEROÖSTERREICH DER BÜRGERM. STELLV. DER GEMEINDERAT: ROBERT LEITNER Druck Franz Kielar in Amstetten |
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| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE FERSCHNITZ DIE MARKTGEMEINDE FERSCHNITZ GIBT GUTSCHEINE BIS ZU EINEM BETRAGE VON 500000 K AUS. G.R.B. VOM 13. 4. 1920 DIESE GUTSCHEINE WERDEN BIS 31. DEZ. 1920 IM GEMEINDEAMTE FERSCHNITZ IN GESETZL. BARGELDE EINGELÖST. 20 HELLER ZWANZIG HELLER BUCHDRUCKEREI KIELAR AMSTETTEN |
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Ferschnitz is a small Lower Austrian village south of Amstetten, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld to compensate for the catastrophic coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. These local emergency notes were legal within their issuing commune only — worthless the moment you crossed into the next parish.
Buchdruckerei Kielar was a regional commercial printer, not a security press. The designer Robert Leitner was almost certainly a local engagement rather than a professional banknote artist.