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20 Heller Säusenstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Säusenstein (Municipality of Säusenstein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette executed in a fine pen-and-ink engraving style presents a panoramic view of the Säusenstein locality, with the distinctive onion-domed church tower rising above a wooded hillside and village rooftops in the foreground. Flanking the central vignette on both sides are decorative floral and scroll underprint borders in gold-ochre, with geometric corner ornaments. The denomination '20' appears at upper left and upper right in bold numerals, with 'Heller' in Gothic script centered between them, and the locality name 'Säusenstein' in large Gothic lettering along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The upper portion carries a central vignette in dark brown letterpress, presenting a medieval-style figural scene with a crowned female figure at center, flanked by armored knights and attendants rendered in a stylized folk-art manner against a vertically lined background. A decorative scroll-bordered text panel in the lower half contains the redemption guarantee and validity clause, below which appears a printed mayoral signature above the title 'Bürgermeister' and a warning against counterfeiting. The denomination '20 Heller' and the issuer name appear in bold Gothic script across the upper margin. |
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Säusenstein is a tiny riverside settlement in Lower Austria — the kind of village that in 1920 had no practical access to small change and little choice but to print its own. The postwar coin shortage drove hundreds of Austrian municipalities to issue Notgeld in fractional denominations, and Säusenstein's 20 Heller belongs to that wave. F. Kielar operated out of Amstetten, a regional printing center that handled commissions for several surrounding communes during this period.
Oskar Reilinger's design credit is worth noting — named local designers on municipal Notgeld are relatively uncommon, most villages simply taking whatever the printer offered from stock layouts.