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20 Heller Langenlois
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Langenlois (Market Town of Langenlois) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde Langenlois über Zwanzig Heller Die Gemeinde Langenlois haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Langenlois, 22. Februar 1920. der Vize-Bürgermeister: der Bürgermeister: Der geschäftsführende Gemeinderat: 20 |
| Reverse description | The plain reverse, printed in black Fraktur script on unadorned paper, bears a four-line historical verse dated 1548 in the upper right quadrant, followed by a central redemption notice stating the note is interest-free and redeemable by the Gemeinde Langenlois in legal tender between 1 and 31 December 1920. A counterfeiting warning closes the text at the bottom. |
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Langenlois is a small wine-producing market town in Lower Austria's Kamptal region, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency fractional currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 20 Heller denomination was among the most practical issues of the period, bridging everyday transactions when metal simply wasn't circulating.
Locally printed Notgeld from small Austrian market towns was rarely produced in large quantities, and attrition was high — these notes were handled constantly in shops and markets before being redeemed and destroyed.