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20 Heller Lilienfeld
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Lilienfeld (Market Town of Lilienfeld) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0523Ia-20 |
| Obverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the obverse presents a central vignette of a baroque civic building with a fountain in the foreground, enclosed within a decorative floral border of stylized blossoms and foliage. The denomination '20 HELLER' appears in large letterpress type at the upper portion, flanked by numeral '20' roundels at each corner, with the word 'ZWANZIG' arched across the upper edge of the vignette; a small oval town seal of Lilienfeld is positioned at the top centre. Below the vignette, a two-line redemption notice in German script is followed by three manuscript facsimile signatures with printed role titles: 'Der Vizebürgermeister', 'Der Bürgermeister', and 'Der Gemeinderat'. |
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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. |
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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.