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20 Heller Heidenreichstein
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Heidenreichstein (Market Town of Heidenreichstein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 1 March 1921 |
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| Signature(s) | Em. Schwertberger (Vize-Bürgermeister), Kaim. Mader (Bürgermeister) and Fritz Ployer (Gemeinde-Rat) |
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| Variants | 2. Auflage (2nd issue) |
| Comments |
Austrian Notgeld of this type was almost always a local improvisation against the chronic small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Heidenreichstein, a small market town in the Waldviertel near the Bohemian border, issued its own fractional scrip like hundreds of other municipalities in 1920 — the three signatures here, covering the vice-mayor, mayor, and a council member, reflect the bureaucratic seriousness with which even tiny communities treated what were essentially emergency tokens.
Fritz Ployer's title, Gemeinde-Rat, is the lowest of the three signatories — unusual to include a rank-and-file councillor alongside the two executive officers.