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20 Heller Schönau im Mühlkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schönau (Municipality of Schönau im Mühlkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress Notgeld note printed on grey-toned paper, enclosed within a decorative zigzag border. The upper portion carries the denomination in ornate Gothic script reading 'Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller', flanking a central octagonal vignette bearing the numeral '20' and the circular inscription 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE SCHÖNAU'. Text panels at left and right state the redemption terms and legal authority, with the Bürgermeister's title and a manuscript signature at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE SCHÖNAU Die Gemeinde Schönau löst diesen Schein bis 31. Dez. 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein Laut Beschluss der Gemeindeausschusitzung vom 4. Mai 1920 Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft Der Bürgermeister |
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Schönau im Mühlkreis is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments scrambling to issue their own small-denomination emergency currency — not because they had monetary authority, but because there was simply nothing else to spend at the village level. Coins had vanished from circulation almost entirely.
The JPR0967a series from Schönau is among the more obscure Upper Austrian Notgeld issues, with very limited documentation of print runs or the local printer involved.