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20 Heller Scheibbs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Scheibbs (Market Town of Scheibbs) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | V. Schatz |
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| Obverse description | Orange guilloche underprint on paper, with a left-side oval vignette engraved by V. Schatz showing a medieval round tower with conical roof amid trees, rendered in fine letterpress line work. To the right, the denomination '20' appears in a dotted border at upper right, with the issuing authority named in blackletter script as 'Notgeld der Marktgemeinde Scheibbs' and the value 'Zwanzig Heller' in large Gothic lettering. Below, a liability clause in cursive script is followed by the place and date 'Scheibbs, am 1. Mai 1920' and three manuscript signatures above their respective office titles. |
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| Reverse description | Orange guilloche underprint with a central text panel framed by a geometric border, headed 'Gemeinde Scheibbs' in ornate blackletter within a decorative cartouche and the caption 'Kassenschein' with dot ornaments. Flanking vignettes engraved by A. Weidinger show a church with steeple at upper left and a hilltop observation tower at right, with the municipal coat of arms at lower left; denomination numerals '20' appear in bold at both upper corners. A counterfeit warning 'Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft' and the footer legend 'Ein Gebot der bittern Not' complete the design. |
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Scheibbs is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. These hyperlocal issues were printed by whoever was available; Rudolf u. Fritz Rabinger was a local firm, not a specialist banknote printer, which shows in the modest production values typical of Austrian provincial Notgeld.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this in the well-documented but vast Austrian municipal series. Designer V. Schatz is otherwise unrecorded in major reference literature.