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20 Heller Retz
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Retz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER L. F. STADT RETZ RETZ, AM 15. JUNI 1920 20 HELLER DER GEMEINDERAT: DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DU ALTE STADT, BEKRÄNZT VON EDLEN REBEN, VERZAGE NICHT, DA FEINDE DICH UMGEBEN, DEIN KÖSTLICH NASS, GIBT TROST UND MUT; DEUTSCH BLEIBT DER SINN, DAS HÖCHSTE GUT. |
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| Reverse lettering | NACHAHMUNG VERBOTEN DIE STADTGEMEINDE RETZ HAFTET MIT IHREM VERMÖGEN FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT UND LÖST DIESEN SCHEIN IN DER ZEIT VOM 1. BIS 30. SEPTEMBER 1920 IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELD EIN NACHAHMUNG VERBOTEN |
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Retz is a small wine-producing town in Lower Austria, and its 1920 Heller notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency currency that flooded Austria after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy left the new republic struggling to maintain small-denomination coinage in circulation. The central government simply could not produce enough low-value coin to meet everyday needs, so hundreds of towns printed their own.
The Heller itself was already a dying unit — Austria abolished it in 1924 when the Krone was replaced by the Schilling. Notes like this one were obsolete within a few years of issue.