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20 Heller Seewalchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Seewalchen am Attersee (Municipality of Seewalchen am Attersee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 76 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green and black Notgeld note printed in letterpress, with the denomination numeral '20' set in the upper left and right corners within an elaborate foliate border of stylised acanthus and floral motifs in dark green. A central cloud-shaped guilloche panel bears the title 'Notgeld' in Gothic script, followed by the issuing authority text and legal authorisation clause dated 8 May 1920. Below the text panel, a small lakeside vignette shows a steamer on the Attersee, flanked by two facsimile signatures and an oval official municipality seal; at the foot of the note, 'SERIE I.' and 'AUFLAGE II' are printed in capital letters. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Seewalchen am Attersee O.-Oe. Auf Grund des Gemeindeausschußbeschlusses vom 8.V.1920 werden zur Linderung der Kleinmünzennot Wertscheine im Gesamtbetrage von K 100,000 ausgegeben, welche vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe der Gültigkeitsdauer eingelöst werden. Der Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter: Der Bürgermeister: Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft SERIE I. AUFLAGE II NORBERTUS-DRUCKEREI, WIEN, III. ATELIER MATEJKO-VERTES WIEN |
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Seewalchen am Attersee is a small lakeside commune in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian municipalities after the First World War, when chronic coin shortages left even minor transactions impossible. The two-printer credit is worth attention: Norbertus-Druckerei handled production while Atelier Matejko-Vertes supplied the artwork — an arrangement common among the more ambitious Austrian Notgeld issues of 1920, where artistic quality was treated as a point of local pride rather than an afterthought.
The Norbertus press operated out of Vienna's third district, associated with the Premonstratensian order's publishing activities.