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20 Heller Irdning
| Issuer | Fa. August Dangl (Inh. F. Schneider), Irdning |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on cream paper, with a decorative border of stylized oak-leaf and diamond motifs enclosing the entire face. To the left, a rectangular vignette reproduces a photographic view of a two-storey commercial building. To the upper right, a classical allegorical figure of Mercury reclines above a guilloche panel bearing the Gutschein inscription in ornate script, with the issuer name 'Fa. August Dangl (Inh. F. Schneider) Irdning' below; the denomination numeral '20' appears in a dotted octagonal cartouche at lower right. Two lines of validity and anti-counterfeiting text run along the lower margin in Fraktur script. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour letterpress in deep blue and red on cream paper, enclosed by a border of stylised fern-leaf sprays. The upper portion carries a colour vignette of an Alpine lake scene with a snow-capped mountain massif in the background. Below, an elaborate blue scrollwork guilloche panel frames the denomination '20' in bold red numerals within an octagonal cartouche, with 'Heller' in red script beneath. The lower register is divided into two panels in Fraktur script identifying the issuing locality and a local landmark. |
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Irdning is a small market village in the Enns valley of Styria, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian communities, it resorted to locally printed Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage of 1920–1921. Fa. August Dangl — a trading firm whose ownership had passed to F. Schneider — issued these notes on its own commercial authority, with no municipal or banking intermediary involved. That's unusual even within the already irregular world of Austrian Heller emergency issues.
Private commercial Notgeld from single named businesses rather than town councils or savings banks is considerably harder to trace through surviving records.