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20 Heller Nussendorf-Artstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Nussendorf-Artstetten (Municipality of Nussendorf-Artstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Robert Leitner |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE NUSSENDORF BEZIRK PÖGGSTALL NIEDERÖSTERREICH ZWANZIG HELLER ZWANZIG HELLER 20 20 DIE GEMEINDE NUSSENDORF HAFTET FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN VERMÖGEN NUSSENDORF, AM 1. JUNI 1920. DER VIZEBÜRGERM.: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER GEMEINDERAT: ROBERT LEITNER |
| Reverse description | Plain olive-green reverse with a large circular guilloche underprint at centre, composed of concentric looping and ruled line patterns. Typeset text in German states that the Gemeinde Nussendorf-Artstetten issues this Notgeld to alleviate the small-change shortage and pledges to redeem it in legal currency by 30 September 1920, with a warning that counterfeiting will be prosecuted. |
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Nussendorf-Artstetten is a small Lower Austrian municipality best known internationally for containing the Artstetten Castle crypt, where Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were interred after their 1914 assassination in Sarajevo — the event that triggered the First World War. This Heller note was issued just six years after that assassination, during the postwar Notgeld wave that swept through Austria as small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation entirely.
A print run of over twelve million pieces for a village of negligible population is striking. Notgeld from tiny Austrian communes was frequently over-printed relative to local need and sold to collectors rather than circulated — a known revenue practice by 1920.