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20 Heller Schärding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schärding |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | HELLER 20 HELLER II. Auflage A. Dieser Gutschein wird bis zum 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlicher Währung eingelöst. Sitzungsbeschluß vom 30. April 1920. Die Stadtgemeindevertretung. Nachahmung strafbar. Stadtgemeinde Schärding a. I. Druck: J. Vees, Schärding. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 HELLER BÜRGERSINN UND EINIGKEIT HERRSCHTE IN DER ALTEN ZEIT. |
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Schärding's 20 Heller note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War. With the imperial coinage system collapsed and small change almost impossible to obtain, towns and market communities across Upper Austria began printing their own emergency fractional notes — Notgeld — to keep local commerce moving. Schärding handled its own production entirely, using the local printer J. Vees rather than contracting out to Vienna or Linz.
Municipal self-sufficiency at this scale is unusual even within the Notgeld series.