Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
20 Heller Neuhofen a. d. Ybbs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Neuhofen an der Ybbs |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency money) issue printed in black and orange on plain paper, with a woodcut-style vignette at centre showing a flagpole bearing a banner inscribed with the issuer's name, alongside a crowned royal bust dated 1714 and a large sword held by a mailed gauntlet. The denomination 'Zwanzig Heller' appears in Gothic blackletter script alongside the numeral '20', with validity date 'bis 31. Dezember 1920' noted at lower right. A text block at the foot records the authorising resolution of 7 April 1920, below which two facsimile signatures appear over the titles 'Zahlmeister' and Marktrichter'. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | privil. Markt Neuhofen a/Ybbs N.-Ö. Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller 20 Heller giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Der priv. Markt Neuhofen a. Ybbs gibt mit Beschluß vom 7. April 1920 Notgeld zu 10, 20 u. 50 Heller aus, hat hiefür eine Deckungsrücklage bestellt u. haftet für die Verbindlichkeit. Zahlmeister Marktrichter |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Austrian Notgeld of this period requires some care in interpretation. Following the economic dislocation of the First World War, hundreds of Austrian municipalities issued their own small-denomination emergency money between roughly 1919 and 1922, filling the void left by a chronic shortage of small change. Neuhofen an der Ybbs, a modest market town on the Ybbs river in Lower Austria, was among them. These issues were authorized under a general framework rather than individual legislative acts, which is why so many look alike in structure despite coming from entirely different communities.
The 1920 date places this squarely in the middle of the Notgeld boom, when collector demand had already begun to influence municipal design choices — many towns were printing more than they needed, knowing philatelists would absorb the surplus.