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20 Heller Götzendorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Götzendorf an der Leitha |
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| In circulation to | 31 July 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a bold woodcut-style vignette in black and green, portraying a medieval armoured figure — likely a knight or historical local character — rendered in an expressionist graphic manner against a green wash background. To the right, the issuer name 'Marktgemeinde Götzendorf' and the word 'Gutschein' are set in a heavy blackletter typeface, with the denomination numeral '20' printed in large green letterpress below, followed by 'Heller' in smaller text. At the lower left, a two-line redemption notice in Gothic script is accompanied by two manuscript signatures above their respective title designations. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green on plain cream paper, enclosed within a scalloped outer border composed of repeating circular elements. A double rectangular inner frame contains the central text layout: 'Not-Ausgabe der Marktgemeinde Götzendorf über Zwanzig Heller' in blackletter script, with the denomination numeral '20' repeated in dotted-border corner cartouches at all four corners. A note of validity extension reading 'Die Giltigkeit dieses Gutscheines wird auf 3 Monate verlängert' appears in the lower central field. |
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Austrian Notgeld from the post-WWI economic breakdown, when the collapse of the Habsburg currency system forced municipalities down to the Marktgemeinde level to print their own emergency fractional notes. Götzendorf an der Leitha is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities it issued Heller denominations in 1920–21 to cover the shortage of small change that the central authorities could no longer supply.
The Jaksch reference places this in a well-documented but enormous corpus. Condition matters more than usual here — small paper Notgeld deteriorates badly at folds, and the 20 Heller denomination saw heavier everyday use than the higher values.