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20 Heller Schönbühel
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Schönbühel an der Donau |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note carries a finely executed lithographic vignette of Schloss Schönbühel perched on a rocky promontory above the Danube, rendered in dark ink with detailed cross-hatching and cloud formations. The right half presents the denomination '20' within a starburst medallion at upper centre, flanked by the split legend 'Hel- -ler', above the large gothic-script inscription 'Gut-Schein' and the issuer name 'Schönbühel a/d Donau'; a lilac guilloche underprint with repeated numeral '20' fills the right panel. The note bears a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister below the caption 'DER BÜRGERMEISTER:', with validity and anti-counterfeiting notices in the lower left, and the notation '2. AUFLAGE' (second issue) at bottom left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Hel- -ler 20 Gut-Schein der Marktgemeinde Schönbühel a/d Donau DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DIE GEMEINDE SCHÖNBÜHEL A/D DONAU ÜBERNIMMT DIE HAFTUNG, DIESEN GUTSCHEIN IN GESETZLICHEM BARGELDE EINZULÖSEN UND HAT ZU DIESEM ZWECKE EINE BESONDERE DECKUNGS-RÜCKLAGE BEREIT. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES GUTSCHEINES WIRD BESTRAFT. 2. AUFLAGE LITH. U. DRUCK F. SEITENBERG, WIEN III |
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Schönbühel an der Donau is a small market town on the Danube in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a Kriegsgeld — wartime emergency currency issued by a local municipal authority during the coin shortage that gripped Austria-Hungary from around 1916 onward. The disappearance of small metal coinage, hoarded or melted as the war consumed metal supplies, forced thousands of municipalities to print their own fractional paper substitutes. Schönbühel was one of the smaller communities to do so.
F. Seitenberg operated out of Vienna's third district and handled a significant volume of these municipal Heller notes for Lower Austrian communities throughout the issue period.