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20 Heller Niederösterreich
| Issuer | Land Niederösterreich (Federal State of Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Land Niederösterreich 20 20 heller heller |
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| Reverse lettering | II. Auflage. II. Auflage. Kassenschein des Landes Niederösterreich 20 20 über zwanzig Heller Zur Behebung der Kleingeldnot gibt das Land Niederösterreich auf Grund des Landtagsbeschlusses vom 23. Juni 1920 Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrage von weiteren drei Millionen Kronen aus. Die Kassenscheine, die unverzinslich sind, werden in der Zeit vom 15. bis 31. Dezember 1920 beim n.-ö. Landes-Obereinnehmeramte in Wien in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. Das Land Niederösterreich haftet für die Einlösung der Kassenscheine mit seinem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Die Nachahmung der Kassenscheine wird gesetzlich bestraft. Wien, im Juli 1920. Der n.-ö. Landesrat. [three signatures over respective offices] Druckerei n.-ö. Landesbahnen. |
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Austrian Länder Notgeld of this period emerged from the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy — small-denomination metallic currency had effectively vanished from circulation by 1919, hoarded or melted, and provincial authorities were left to fill the gap themselves. Lower Austria, which still administratively surrounded Vienna at this point (formal separation of Vienna as its own Bundesland came in 1922), was among the most prolific issuers.
The printer, Druckerei n.-ö. Landesbahnen, was the in-house press of the Lower Austrian provincial railways — an industrial print shop pressed into emergency fiscal service.