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20 Heller Preinsbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Preinsbach (Municipality of Preinsbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a simple typeset text block within a rectangular ruled border, corner ornaments bearing the numeral '20' in rosette medallions. The text sets out the municipality's legal obligation to redeem the voucher in lawful currency at the mayor's office within 14 days of announcement, per council resolution of 8 June 1920, followed by an anti-counterfeiting warning. Three manuscript signatures appear below the text under the role designations Geschäftsführ. Gemeinderat, Bürgermeister, and Vice-Bürgermeister. The printer's imprint is at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Preinsbach haftet laut Gemeinderats-Beschluß vom 8. Juni 1920 für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein 14 Tage nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargeld beim Bürgermeisteramte einzulösen. / Die Nachahmung dieses Gutscheines wird bestraft. / Geschäftsführ. Gemeinderat: / Bürgermeister: / Vice-Bürgermeister: / Lith. u. Druck von F. Seitenberg, Wien III. |
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Preinsbach is a small rural municipality in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria in 1920 — a direct consequence of wartime coin hoarding and the near-total disappearance of small-denomination metal currency from circulation. Thousands of Austrian municipalities issued their own emergency paper in this period, many commissioning local or regional artists to distinguish their notes from the flood of plain utility issues.
Pepi Grim's involvement places this among the more deliberately designed pieces in the Lower Austrian Notgeld output. F. Seitenberg operated out of Vienna's third district and handled a number of these municipal commissions during the period.