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20 Heller Mödling
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Mödling |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain brown-toned reverse within a dotted rectangular border, centred by the municipal coat of arms of Mödling — a shield bearing horizontal stripes above a rampant lion. Flanking the arms, two columns of Gothic-script text state the legal basis for the issue and the redemption conditions, noting that 100,000 Kronen in Kassenscheine were issued to alleviate the small-change shortage and that the notes would be accepted as legal tender until 31 August 1920. The denomination '20' is repeated in the upper corner cartouches. |
| Reverse lettering | Kassenschein der STADTGEMEINDE MÖDLING über 20 Heller Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Mödling für 100.000 Kronen Kassenscheine aus. Diese Kassenscheine lauten auf 20 Heller, sind unverzinslich und werden von der Gemeinde Mödling bis 31. August 1920 in Zahlung genommen und bis zu diesem Termin in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. |
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Mödling's 20 Heller notgeld belongs to the second wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency — issued not during the wartime shortages that prompted the earliest Heller notes in 1914–1916, but during the prolonged coin famine that continued well into the early republic years after 1918. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small-denomination metal coinage effectively absent from daily commerce, and hundreds of Austrian municipalities issued their own paper substitutes under tacit federal tolerance rather than formal authorization.
Mödling, a small town south of Vienna with a history of bourgeois prosperity, produced relatively small print runs compared to larger Niederösterreich municipalities. The Jaksc catalog reference confirms local printing, which for issues of this size typically meant a regional job printer rather than a specialist banknote house.