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20 Heller Herzogsdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Herzogsdorf (Municipality of Herzogsdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | ZWANZIG 20 HELLER Gültig nur bis 31. Dezember 1920 Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Laut Gemeindeausschuss Beschluß vom 16. Mai 1920 gibt die Gemeinde Herzogsdorf Gutscheine bis zu einen Gesammtbetrage von 30,000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit der Einlösung. Diese Gutscheine werden bis zum 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Einlösetermin 1. bis 31. Dezember. Der Vizebürgermeister: Johann Erlinger. Der Bürgermeister: Leopold Sander. Martin Roitner s.a. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue on buff paper and centred on a large rectangular vignette set within an arched frame with hatched side borders. The vignette presents a panoramic view of the village of Herzogsdorf, with a prominent church steeple rising above low-roofed farm buildings, trees, and a picket fence in the foreground, rendered in a fine line-art style. The denomination numeral '20' appears in each of the four corners, and the artist's credit 'A. Scheck, Linz' is inscribed in small lettering at the lower left of the vignette. |
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Herzogsdorf is a small Upper Austrian municipality that issued this Heller notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy after World War One. The 1920 dating places it in the middle of Austria's notgeld peak, when hundreds of communes printed their own emergency small change because the central government simply could not produce enough coinage fast enough.
Three signatories — the mayor, deputy mayor, and a third official — is slightly unusual for a village-level issue of this denomination. Worth checking whether the Roitner signature is a facsimile printed on the note or applied by hand.