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20 Heller Schönau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schönau (Municipality of Schönau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0964b-20 |
| Obverse description | Green-printed Notgeld with a vignette of the Heilbad Schallerbach spa building set against a wooded hillside at left. Ornate floral guilloche border frames the denomination numeral 20 and Gothic script text at right. |
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| Signature(s) | Hans Wiesbauer and Joh. Ameshofer and Jos. Berger |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this period was issued under emergency provisions that allowed local governments to fill the coin shortage left by wartime metal requisitioning. Schönau — a small Upper Austrian commune — was among hundreds of municipalities that printed their own fractional currency in 1920, typically in runs of a few thousand notes distributed through local cooperative stores or the municipal office itself.
Three signatories is unusual for a village-level issue; most comparable communes managed with two. The presence of Wiesbauer, Ameshofer, and Berger likely reflects a committee structure required by the issuing ordinance rather than any administrative complexity in the municipality itself.