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20 Heller Lindabrunn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lindabrunn (Municipality of Lindabrunn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette, rendered in fine pen-and-ink style and signed 'Robert Leitner' below the image, presents a rural street scene with a building and chimney smoke. The denomination numeral '20' appears at upper left and right within decorative scroll borders, flanked on both sides by the legend 'ZWANZIG HELLER' in bold letterpress; the upper margin carries the municipal issuer inscription. The lower portion contains the redemption notice dated 1 July 1920, authenticated by three manuscript signatures of local officials. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is composed entirely of typeset text in period Fraktur (blackletter) typeface, enclosed within a dashed rectangular border. The heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Lindabrunn. Zwanzig Heller.' introduces a full explanatory paragraph detailing the issuance purpose, the note's non-interest-bearing character, its acceptance terms, and the redemption window of 15 to 31 December 1920. A closing line warns that counterfeiting is subject to legal prosecution. |
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Lindabrunn is a small spa village in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities in the early 1920s, it issued Notgeld to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small metal coinage from circulation — a direct consequence of wartime hoarding and the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. These municipal emergency issues were typically sanctioned under Austrian Notgeld regulations and redeemable against a deposited float of official currency held by the local treasury.
Robert Leitner designed a notable number of Lower Austrian Notgeld pieces in this period, though he remains poorly documented compared to the prominent Vienna Secession-adjacent designers who handled larger urban issues.