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20 Heller Lunz am See
| Issuer | Gemeinde Lunz am See (Municipality of Lunz am See) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | E. Diemberger |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark green on plain paper and consists of a central text panel enclosed within a rectangular cartouche with curved indentations, itself surrounded by a dense Art Nouveau-style ornamental border of interlocking scrollwork, stylised leaves, and dotted roundels. The text within the cartouche states the municipality's guarantee of redemption in legal tender and warns against counterfeiting, closing with the redemption period. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Lunz am See haftet mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen dafür, diesen Schein im gesetzl. Bargelde einzulösen. Nachahmung wird bestraft. Einlösung vom 15. bis 31. Dezember 1920. |
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Lunz am See is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it resorted to issuing its own emergency small change — Notgeld — in the years following the First World War, when coin virtually disappeared from everyday commerce. The 1920 date places this squarely in the peak of that phenomenon.
The designer credit to E. Diemberger is worth noting: locally commissioned artwork on Austrian Notgeld varies considerably in quality, and named designers on small-denomination municipal issues are not always easy to trace.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 on this note is almost certainly a cataloging or transcription anomaly — that date falls on the final day of Hitler's life and well outside any plausible Notgeld production window.