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20 Heller Lend
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lend (Municipality of Lend) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE LEND 20 HELLER ZWANZIG HELLER Dieses Ersatzgeld verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn es nicht innerhalb 4 Wochen nach der erfolgten öffentlichen Kundmachung bei der Gemeindekasse eingelöst wird. Die Nachahmung ist gesetzlich strafbar. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in grey-blue on cream paper and centres on an oval cartouche containing the authorisation text of the municipality, flanked by two classically rendered putti figures bearing garlands of flowers in a symmetrical Art Nouveau composition. A delicate dotted and scrollwork border frames the entire design. Three facsimile signatures appear beneath the text, identified by their respective titles Bürgermeister, I. Gemeinderat, and II. Gemeinderat. The printer's imprint ENTWURF: F. X. STADLER – DRUCK VON R. KIESEL IN SALZBURG appears along the lower margin. |
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Lend is a small market town in the Salzburg Lungau, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Austrian Notgeld wave of 1920 — municipal emergency currency issued after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left smaller communities effectively without functional small change. Thousands of Austrian towns and villages printed their own, and the collector market for them became so active, so quickly, that many issues were printed speculatively for philatelic sale rather than genuine circulation.
R. Kiesel was a Salzburg-based printer responsible for a number of regional Notgeld issues from this period. F. X. Stadler's design credit is relatively uncommon in surviving documentation for notes at this denomination.