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20 Heller Frankenmarkt
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Frankenmarkt (Municipality of Frankenmarkt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE FRANKENMARKT ZWANZIG 20 HELLER DER BÜRGERMEISTER DER GEMEINDERAT |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Marktgemeinde Frankenmarkt gibt auf Grund des Gemeindeausschuß-Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 16. April 1920 Notgeld aus und haftet für die Einlösung mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen. Die Gutscheine werden in der Zeit vom 1. bis einschließlich 31. Mai 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Vizebürgermeister: Jauk Der Bürgermeister: Andorfer |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency notes — Notgeld — issued in the chaotic years following the First World War, when small denominations vanished from circulation and towns were forced to print their own. Frankenmarkt is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like most issuing municipalities, it had no printing infrastructure of its own; the design credit to "A. Wilh." almost certainly indicates a local commercial printer or graphic artist contracted for the purpose rather than any notable engraving house.
The 1920 date places this in the later wave of Austrian municipal issues, after the collapse of the Habsburg currency system had made small-change scarcity a chronic problem rather than a temporary one.