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20 Heller Purgstall
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Purgstall an der Erlauf |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a circular vignette enclosed in a laurel wreath with rose embellishments, containing the town's heraldic device: a winged female figure seated atop a column capital above a Gothic gatehouse tower, with the founding date '1603' divided on either side. To the right, the denomination '20 Heller' and the word 'GUTSCHEIN' are set in bold letterpress, followed by the validity inscription and the issuer's name in large display type. Three manuscript signatures appear along the lower margin beneath their respective printed title lines. |
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| Reverse lettering | DRUCK v. RUDOLF u. FRITZ RADINGER in SCHEIBBS. |
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Purgstall an der Erlauf is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept through Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the Habsburg monetary system in collapse and the new Republic of Austria unable to supply sufficient small change, local governments were legally permitted to issue their own emergency scrip. Purgstall's issue was printed locally by Rudolf u. Fritz Radinger in nearby Scheibbs — a reminder that this was genuinely provincial currency, not a collectible series dressed up for the philatelic trade.
Three signatories authenticated the issue: the mayor, the vice-mayor, and the municipal treasurer.