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20 Heller Haag
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Haag (Market Town of Haag, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig nur bis einschliesslich 31. Dez. 1920. 20 Heller (zwanzig) 20 Gutschein der Gemeinde Haag. Die Marktgemeinde Haag haftet für die Verbindlichkeit und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Der Bürgermeister: J. Nagelstrasser Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird bestraft. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Haag N.-Ö. über 20 Heller 20 Zur Behebung der herrschenden Kleingeldnot gibt die Marktgemeinde Haag auf Grund des Gemeinderatsbeschlusses vom 20. Dez. 1919 Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von zehntausend Kronen aus. Diese Gutscheine werden im Monate Dezember 1920 im Gemeindeamte in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. |
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Haag's 20 Heller notgeld dates from the brief but intense Austrian emergency currency period that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. With the new Republic struggling to supply sufficient small-denomination coinage, hundreds of Lower Austrian municipalities — Haag among them — printed their own Heller notes under provincial authorization in 1920. The practical need was genuine: small change had effectively vanished from daily commerce.
Signatory J. Nagelstrasser served as the local municipal official responsible for authorizing issue, a bureaucratic formality that gave these hyperlocal instruments whatever legal standing they carried within the community.