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80 Heller Schwallenbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schwallenbach an der Donau (Municipality of Schwallenbach on the Danube, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and black on plain paper, dominated by a central oval vignette bearing the large denomination numeral '80' over a dotted guilloche underprint, enclosed within an elaborate floral wreath of flowers and foliage rendered in fine letterpress. The border consists of an ornamental blue frame with decorative corner pieces and scroll motifs, with the year '1920' running vertically on both lateral margins. The imprint of the printer A. Grundmann, Wien XIII/4, appears in small type along the lower edge. |
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| Protection description | Violet oval municipality stamp of Gemeinde Schwallenbach applied diagonally on the reverse |
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Schwallenbach is a tiny riverside settlement in the Wachau valley, and its 1920 Heller notgeld issue is exactly what you'd expect from a municipality too small and too remote to rely on Vienna's chronically disrupted postwar coin supply. The 80 Heller denomination is slightly unusual — most village-level Austrian notgeld clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller — suggesting local pricing realities rather than any standardized approach.
Grundmann of Vienna's 13th district handled both design and printing, a common arrangement for smaller Wachau communes that lacked contacts with the larger specialist notgeld printers like Berger or Rosenbaum. The official stamp serves as the sole authentication measure.