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20 Heller Landfriedstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Landfriedstetten (Municipality of Landfriedstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | A typeset Notgeld voucher printed in black on pale olive-green tinted paper, enclosed within a decorative Greek-key pattern border. The denomination '20 Heller' is set in large bold gothic type at the left, with the title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Landfriedstetten' across the top. A German proverb appears in the central text field, followed by the redemption clause and the facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Landfriedstetten 20 Heller Wenn die Not am größten, Ist Gott am nächsten. :: Dieser Gutschein wird bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst. Vizebgm.: Doppler. Bürgermeister: Schober. |
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Landfriedstetten is a small village in Lower Austria, and this note is a product of the acute coin shortage that plagued rural Austria in the early post-WWI years. With the Habsburg monetary system collapsed and the new Austrian state struggling to supply small change, thousands of municipalities — many of them tiny — printed their own Notgeld to keep local commerce moving. Landfriedstetten was among the smallest to do so.
Both signatories signed in official capacity: Schober as Bürgermeister, Doppler as his deputy. Village-level Notgeld authenticated this way is common to the type, but finding both signatures legible and unfaded is not.