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20 Heller Poysdorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Poysdorf (Market Town of Poysdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0776b-20 |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE POYSDORF 20 HELLER Der Ergebnisvorsitzter Der Bürgermeister Der Gemeindeausschuss |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in black Gothic (Fraktur) script on plain cream paper with no decorative underprint. The upper section carries a four-line rhyming verse referencing Poysdorf's wine trade and the prevailing shortage of small change, followed by a text block setting out the legal basis for the issue, the acceptance and redemption terms, the counterfeiting warning Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft, and the edition note Zweite Auflage. |
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Poysdorf is a small wine-producing market town in Lower Austria's Weinviertel, and this 20 Heller note is one of the Notgeld issues that proliferated across Austria in 1920 as the postwar coinage shortage left communities without small change. Municipal and commercial bodies issued their own emergency scrip partly out of necessity and partly, by this point, because collector demand had turned local Notgeld into a minor revenue source — some issues were printed in quantities far exceeding local circulation needs and sold directly to dealers.
The Jaksc reference places this within the documented Lower Austrian municipal series.