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20 Heller Inzersdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Inzersdorf (Municipality of Inzersdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Inzersdorf Die Gemeinde Inzersdorf gibt laut Sitzungsbeschluß vom 25. Mai 1920 Notgeld von 10, 20 und 50 Heller heraus und setzt die Laufzeit auf 3 Monate vom Tage der Ausgabe fest. — Die Nachahmung dieses Kassenscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. ∞∞ F. Pöllhuber, Bürgermeister Bezirk Kirchdorf – Oberösterreich 20 |
| Reverse description | Blue-grey vignette on cream paper centred on an oval landscape view of a historic castle complex with a tall Gothic tower surrounded by ancillary buildings, rolling hills, and fields in the background, all rendered in fine line engraving. Flanking the oval are two circular denomination cartouches reading "20 Heller", each set within ornate scroll-and-wing mounts and accompanied by decorative agricultural and heraldic implements — a crossed arrow-and-staff at upper left and a pitchfork-and-rake at upper right, with floral sprays below. The inscription "INTZERSTORFF 1674" is set in Roman capitals along the lower margin, referencing the earliest recorded name of the settlement. |
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Inzersdorf — now absorbed into Vienna's 23rd district — issued this 20 Heller notgeld in 1920 as Austria's chronic small-coin shortage dragged on well past the armistice. Municipal issues of this type were a stopgap, authorized locally and redeemable only within the issuing community, which made them nearly worthless outside their parish boundaries. The signature of Bürgermeister Pöllhuber gives it legal standing under Austrian emergency currency provisions, but in practice the note's authority extended no further than the mayor's own neighbors.
Most Austrian notgeld of this period was printed in large runs on thin stock and saw hard daily use. Survivors in clean condition are rarer than the sheer volume of issues suggests.