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20 Heller Persenbeug
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Persenbeug (Market Town of Persenbeug) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress notgeld on cream paper with a wavy-line guilloche underprint. At upper centre, an elaborate baroque cartouche bearing the town arms flanked by two putti serves as the central vignette, with the denomination numerals '20' at each upper corner and the legend 'Zwanzig Heller' across the top. To the left, a gnarled tree vignette frames a tablet inscribed with the validity date, while a right-hand tablet carries a warning against counterfeiting; the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister signature lines appear below the cartouche. A redemption clause in Gothic script runs along the lower margin, and the printer's mark 'ZAVA' appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Colour letterpress vignette in olive-green and violet tones on a pale buff ground. The upper portion carries a landscape view of Persenbeug Castle perched above the Danube, with trees and a farmhouse to the left and a river panorama stretching to the right. In the lower left corner, a decorative cartouche encloses the town's armorial tower device surmounted by a lion-mask. The denomination and issuer inscription occupy the upper right in bold Gothic lettering. |
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Persenbeug is a small market town on the Danube in Lower Austria, and its 1920 Heller notgeld issues belong to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency money produced after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments without adequate small change. The Marktgemeinde had both the legal standing and the practical necessity to issue its own scrip — the central coin supply had essentially evaporated by this point.
The Jaksc reference places this squarely in the documented Lower Austrian notgeld corpus, though Persenbeug issues are not among the heavily collected or frequently forged types, suggesting genuinely modest print runs and limited regional circulation.