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20 Heller Heidenreichstein
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Heidenreichstein (Market Town of Heidenreichstein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Plain unadorned note printed in black on cream paper, enclosed within a simple rectangular border with inner ruled frame. The heading reads Kassen-Schein der Marktgemeinde Heidenreichstein über in Gothic blackletter script, with the denomination 20 Heller set centrally in large bold Gothic type flanked by numeral 20 in the left and right panels. The lower portion carries a liability guarantee text followed by the facsimile signatures and titles of three municipal officials. |
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| Reverse description | Unadorned reverse printed in black on plain cream paper, bearing a circular official municipality stamp overlapping the text field. The text, set in Gothic blackletter script, restates the note's designation and denomination, specifies the non-interest-bearing redemption period from 15 February to 1 March 1921, and includes a counterfeiting warning clause, concluded by the place and date of issue. |
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Heidenreichstein is a small market town in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the acute small-change famine that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. The new Austrian state had neither the institutional capacity nor the metal stocks to mint sufficient coinage, so hundreds of municipalities issued their own Notgeld — locally authorized emergency scrip — to keep daily commerce moving.
Three signatories authenticated this note: the Bürgermeister, the Vize-Bürgermeister, and a member of the municipal council. That triple signature requirement was typical of the legal caution these towns exercised, knowing the scrip had no backing beyond local trust.