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20 Heller Kasten
| Issuer | Gemeindevorstehumg Kasten (Municipality of Kasten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 30 September 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse with a green diamond-pattern border running along all four edges. The central text block, set entirely in Gothic blackletter script, states the municipality's legal redemption obligation, followed by the issuing authority and date of issue at center, and an anti-counterfeiting warning at the foot. The printer's imprint 'Gross, St. Pölten' appears in small type at the lower left margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Kasten haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Kassenschein bis 30. September 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Gemeindevorstehumg Kasten am 30. Mai 1920. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld from the immediate postwar period, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities effectively unable to make change. Kasten — a village in Lower Austria — issued these Heller notes in 1920 through its Gemeindevorstehumg, the local administrative authority, as a purely practical response to a chronic coin shortage that affected hundreds of similarly small communities across the former empire simultaneously.
Gross of St. Pölten handled the printing, a regional commercial printer responsible for notgeld issues from several Lower Austrian municipalities during this period rather than a specialist security printer.