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20 Heller Lend
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lend (Municipality of Lend) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress Notgeld note with a full-width header inscription across the top. To the left, the denomination numeral '20' is set within an ornate scrollwork frame with 'HELLER ZWANZIG HELLER' below. The central vignette presents a woodland waterfall scene with a serpentine water creature rising from a pool in the foreground. To the right, a text panel states the validity conditions and a counterfeiting warning, flanked by a decorative guilloche cartouche. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde LEND IM PINZGAU gibt auf Grund des Beschlusses der Sitzung vom 5. Juni 1920 Ersatzgeld aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit zur Einlösung desselben mit ihrem beweglichen u. unbeweglichen Vermögen. Bürgermeister I. Gemeinderat II. Gemeinderat ENTWURF: F.X. STADLER – DRUCK VON R. KIESEL IN SALZBURG |
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Lend is a small market town in the Salzburg Lungau district, and this 1920 emergency issue belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld produced when postwar coin shortages made small-change transactions nearly impossible. The printer R. Kiesel operated out of Salzburg and handled a number of these municipal commissions across the region — a practical arrangement when local authorities needed fast, cheap solutions.
F.X. Stadler's involvement as designer is the one detail worth noting: locally commissioned Notgeld designers of this period ranged wildly in competence, and attribution at all is relatively uncommon for issues this minor.