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20 Heller Ober-Grafendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ober-Grafendorf (Municipality of Ober-Grafendorf) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on pale pink paper, the obverse carries a finely engraved letterpress vignette of a rural Austrian village scene with buildings, trees, and a garden path occupying the left and centre of the note. The denomination '20' and the Gothic-script legend 'Zwanzig Heller' appear across the upper portion, with the text 'Gutschein der Gemeinde' set in decorative calligraphic lettering to the right. The issuer name 'Ober-Grafendorf-N.Oe.' is inscribed along the lower margin within a leafy border frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde gibt diesen Gutschein für einen Betrag von 10.000 Kronen aus und löst je 5 Stück desselben bis 31. Oktober 1920 gegen eine d.-ö. Kronennote ein. Fälschungen sind von der Einlösung ausgeschlossen und werden gerichtlich verfolgt. Gemeinde-Vorstehung Ober-Grafendorf. Sommer, St. Pölten |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal notgeld issues that flooded the economy during and after the First World War, when small coin disappeared from circulation almost overnight. Gemeinden across Lower Austria turned to local printers to fill the gap — Sommer in St. Pölten handled several such commissions in the region. The JPR reference places this in the Jaksch-Pick catalog of Austrian necessity money, a specialized corpus that most generalist collections overlook entirely.