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20 Heller Laxenburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Laxenburg (Municipality of Laxenburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown and grey-violet on cream paper, the obverse carries a central vignette of Laxenburg Castle with its distinctive gate towers, bridge, and surrounding trees rendered in fine letterpress. The denomination numeral '20' appears in guilloche rosette cartouches at upper left and right, while the word 'HELLER' is set in a decorative banner below the vignette. The lower half bears the title 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde Laxenburg N. Oe.' in Gothic script, flanked by validity and anti-counterfeiting notices, with three manuscript signatures of the Kammerer, Bürgermeister, and Vizebürgermeister below their respective titles. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain and unprinted, consisting of uniform bare cream-tan paper stock with no vignette, text, or decorative elements, consistent with the emergency issue character of this Notgeld. |
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Laxenburg — a small town south of Vienna best known for its Habsburg summer palace — issued this 20 Heller note as part of Austria's postwar Notgeld wave, when municipal governments across the former empire scrambled to cover a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage. The central bank simply could not produce enough circulating currency fast enough. Local administrations filled the gap themselves, often commissioning designs from commercial printers and issuing notes valid only within their own borders.
The printer, A. S. Syklorberg of Vienna, handled a number of these municipal issues and was one of several small Viennese firms that found steady work during the Notgeld period.