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20 Heller Schwanenstadt
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schwanenstadt |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Schwanenstadt. Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller Der Bürgermeister: Strasser |
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| Reverse lettering | Gültig bis 31. Dezemb. 1920 STADTGEMEINDE SCHWANENSTADT 20 Nachahmung strafbar. E. Prietzel, Steyr |
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Schwanenstadt's 20 Heller note is one of thousands of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues printed in the immediate postwar years, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small towns desperately short of coin for everyday transactions. The Stadtgemeinde — the municipal authority, not a bank — assumed responsibility for issuing emergency fractional currency, something that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. E. Prietzel in Steyr handled a number of these small Upper Austrian commissions, operating as a regional printer rather than a specialist banknote house.
Austrian municipal Notgeld of 1920 typically circulated for only a few months before redemption orders were issued, making heavily used examples genuinely uncommon.