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20 Heller Lilienfeld
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lilienfeld (Market Town of Lilienfeld) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The plain cream reverse carries only typeset text in brown ink, arranged centrally in a clean letterpress layout. The heading reads 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Lilienfeld' in bold display type, followed by a full paragraph in German citing the council resolution of 30 April 1920, the total issue ceiling of 30,000 Kronen, the redemption window of 20 to 31 December 1920, and provisions for a possible extension of the circulation period. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Lilienfeld Auf Grund des Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 30. April 1920 erfolgt die Einlösung der bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 30 000 Kronen ausgegebenen Gutscheine aus der hiefür eigens bestellten Deckungsrücklage in gesetzlichem Bargelde in der Zeit vom 20. bis 31. Dezember 1920. Gegebenenfalls kann eine Verlängerung der Umlaufszeit, welche bis längstens 20. Dezember 1920 öffentlich verlautbart wird, erfolgen. |
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Lilienfeld is a small market town in Lower Austria, best known for its Cistercian monastery founded in 1202. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities during the severe coin shortage that followed World War I, Lilienfeld issued its own emergency paper currency — Notgeld — to keep local commerce moving when the central government could not supply adequate small-denomination coinage. These township issues were a practical stopgap, not a monetary experiment.
The Jaksch reference places this squarely within the documented Lower Austrian series. Printing was handled locally or regionally for most issues of this type, with quality varying considerably between municipalities.