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20 Heller Melk
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Melk |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Melk a.D. über heller 20 heller Giltig nur bis einschließlich 31. Dezember 1920. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Reverse description | Grey-green vignette covering the full face, with a line-engraved view of a historic stone tower and gateway in the foreground and the twin-towered Melk Abbey rising on the hilltop beyond. The municipal arms — a rampant lion on a shield — appear in the upper left corner, while a guarantee text in Gothic script with a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister occupies the upper right. A repeating ornamental chain pattern forms the border. |
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Melk's 20 Heller notgeld of 1920 belongs to the second wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency — issued well after the armistice, when the postwar coin shortage persisted far longer than anyone had anticipated. By 1920, many larger cities had already wound down their notgeld programs, but smaller Niederösterreich communes like Melk were still printing to cover the chronic lack of small change that Vienna's mints simply could not address fast enough.
The Jaksc/Pick reference JPR0605II designation places this in the second series for the municipality, suggesting Melk had already exhausted an earlier issue before returning to print.