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20 Heller Hadres
| Issuer | Gemeinde Hadres (Municipality of Hadres) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Issued as an uncut horizontal pair of two 10 Heller Notgeld vouchers, each panel sharing an identical typeset design on plain cream paper. Each panel carries the heading 'Gut-Schein' in Gothic blackletter script above a double rule, with the denomination '10 HELLER' in large bold type, and below a further double rule the guarantee text affirming redemption by the Gemeinde Hadres in legal currency until 31 December 1920. Two facsimile signatures in italic script appear at the foot of each panel. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on unadorned cream-toned paper with no design elements, text, or ornamentation; faint show-through of the obverse typography is visible due to the light weight of the paper stock. |
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Hadres is a small wine-producing village in Lower Austria's Weinviertel region, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it was forced into emergency currency production after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire left a catastrophic small-denomination coin shortage across the new Republic. These Gemeindenotgeld issues of 1920 were strictly local instruments — accepted in the issuing village and nowhere else — signed by whoever held municipal office at the time rather than any banking authority.
Rudolph Wlczek as Bürgermeister and Franz Lerch as his deputy authenticated this note personally. Parish-level paper like this was typically printed in small regional runs, redeemed quickly, and discarded, which is why survivorship varies so sharply even within a single series.