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20 Heller Lasberg
| Issuer | Marktkommune Lasberg (Market Municipality of Lasberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 12 May 1920 |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Marktkommune Lasberg, Bezirk Freistadt in Oberösterreich, gibt auf Grund des Ausschußfaßungsbeschlusses vom 12. Mai 1920 Notgeld zu 10, 20 und 50 h im Gesamtwerte von 30.000 K aus und haftet für die Einlösung derselben mit ihren sämtlichen Besitzungen. Die Gutscheine werden in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Jänner 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Lasberg, 12. Mai 1920. Der Kassenführer: Franz Auer. Der Vorsteher: Josef Prückl. Die Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. 20 20 |
| Signature(s) | Franz Auer and Josef Prückl |
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Lasberg is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities without adequate small change, prompting hundreds of local authorities to print their own emergency issues. Lasberg's series was signed by the Marktrichter and a local official — Franz Auer and Josef Prückl — whose names lend the note whatever legal weight a village could muster in 1920.
Upper Austrian notgeld of this period was printed in relatively small quantities and saw genuine circulation, unlike the purely collectible "Serienscheine" issued simultaneously by larger Austrian towns for the philatelic trade.