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20 Heller Neustadtl an der Donau, Nabegg, Judenhof, Windpassing, Klein Wolfstein

Issuer Municipalities of Neustadtl an der Donau, Nabegg, Judenhof, Windpassing, and Klein Wolfstein (Federal State of Lower Austria)
Year 1920
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Designer(s) Steffi Nemeti
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Obverse lettering Gutschein
der Ortsgruppe der Gemeinden
Neustadtl/a. Nabegg /D. Judenhof, Windpassing, Kl. Wolfstein
Gittig bis 31 Dezember 1920.
Bürgermeister: J. Hüttinger-Neustadtla D.
L. Berger-Nabegg
J. Grünberger-Kl. Wolfstein
Bürgermeister Fr. Rosenthaler-Judenhof
J. Korn-Windpassing
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Signature(s) J. Hüttinger (Neustadtl a.D.) and L. Berger (Nabegg) and Fr. Rosenthaler (Judenhof) and J. Korn (Windpassing) and J. Grünberger (Kl. Wolfstein)
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Five municipalities co-issuing a single Notgeld note is unusual even by the chaotic standards of Austrian emergency currency after the First World War. The post-1918 coin shortage left countless small communities printing their own fractional notes, but pooling resources across five separate villages — each contributing its own authorized signature — points to a degree of administrative coordination that most rural communes didn't bother with. Five signatories on one 20 Heller note is a practical oddity worth noting.

F. Kletar in Amstetten was a local commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, which was entirely typical for Lower Austrian Notgeld of this period.

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