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20 Heller Gross-Pertholz

Issuer Marktgemeinde Groß-Pertholz (Market Town of Groß-Pertholz)
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Obverse description The obverse is printed in dark blue on cream paper with a honeycomb-patterned underprint. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in bold blackletter type in framed panels at left and right, flanking a central title panel reading 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Gr.-Pertholz' bordered above and below by ornamental floral guilloche strips. The lower portion carries a liability declaration text in Gothic script, three facsimile signatures identifying the Gemeinderat, Bürgermeister, and Vizebürgermeister, a validity line, and an anti-counterfeiting notice, with the printer's imprint 'Otto Neugebauer, Zwettl' at the lower right.
Obverse lettering 20 Heller
Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Gr.-Pertholz
Die Marktgemeinde Groß-Pertholz haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen.
Gemeinderat: Franz Anderl.
Bürgermeister: Eduard Kuttner.
Vizebürgermeister: Carl Amon.
Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920.
Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft.
Otto Neugebauer, Zwettl.
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency notes — Notgeld — issued during the acute coin shortage that gripped the Habsburg successor states in 1920. Groß-Pertholz is a small market town in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, and its three-signature authorization reflects the full local council quorum required to legitimize what was, legally speaking, a private scrip obligation rather than state currency. Otto Neugebauer of Zwettl was a regional job printer who handled Notgeld commissions for several Waldviertel municipalities during this period, working at modest scale rather than the decorative collector-oriented issues that came out of Vienna.

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