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20 Heller Laxenburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Laxenburg (Municipality of Laxenburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The upper half of the obverse is occupied by a central vignette in brown/dark red letterpress showing a view of Laxenburg Castle with its towers, gateway bridge, and surrounding trees reflected in the foreground water. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large bold type within circular guilloche rosettes at the upper left and upper right corners, with a blue-grey underprint covering the lower portion of the note. The lower half carries the issuer inscription 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde Laxenburg N.Oe.' in Gothic script, flanked by validity and guarantee texts, with three manuscript signatures of the Kammerer, Bürgermeister, and Vizebürgermeister below. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 HELLER Kassenschein der Gemeinde Laxenburg N.Oe. Gültig bis 31. Juli 1920. DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES KASSENSCHEINES WIRD BESTRAFT. DIE GEMEINDE LAXENBURG N.OE. HAFTET FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN VERMÖGEN. KAMMERER BÜRGERMEISTER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER |
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Laxenburg is a small market town south of Vienna, known more for its Habsburg summer palace than for monetary innovation. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld when the collapse of the wartime economy left the national coinage supply utterly inadequate — small copper and nickel coins had vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded or melted, and the central authorities were slow to respond.
Lederle's Vienna print shop handled a great many of these municipal emergency notes, which accounts for the relatively clean typographic execution despite the chaotic circumstances of issue.