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20 Heller Langenlois
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Langenlois (Market Town of Langenlois) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain buff paper in blackletter script without any vignette or guilloche, presenting a four-line rhyming verse in the upper section alluding to the local wine trade, followed by a central text block stating the note's non-interest-bearing status and its redemption terms. A final cautionary line against counterfeiting appears at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Aus Papier die ganze Welt Warum nicht auch das Loiser Geld Für diese Scheine kriegst du Wein Doch müssen ihrer viele sein. Dieser Kassenschein ist unverzinslich und wird in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 von der Gemeinde Langenlois in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Langenlois is a wine-producing market town in Lower Austria's Kamptal region, and its 1920 Heller notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Austria after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left smaller communities chronically short of small change. The Marktgemeinde printed locally, as many comparable towns did, keeping costs down and turnaround fast.
Heller denominations were already becoming economically marginal by 1920 — the inflation that would accelerate through the early 1920s would render this note worthless within a few years of issue.