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20 Heller St. Aegyd am Neuwald
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Sankt Aegyd am Neuwald (Market Town of St. Aegyd am Neuwald) |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | A typeset and letterpress-printed Notgeld voucher in black on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative dotted border with denomination numeral '20' repeated in circular cartouches at each corner. The central text in Gothic and script typefaces reads 'Gut-Schein der Marktgemeinde St. Aegyd a/n', surmounted by an oval vignette bearing the denomination '20 Heller' with a circular municipality seal. Flanking the central text are two local landscape vignettes — at left, a rolling Alpine hillside with a chapel captioned 'OSTER-KOGEL', and at right, a church with a cross-topped steeple captioned 'EVANG. KIRCHE' — while the lower centre presents two figures in traditional peasant attire, with the Bürgermeister's facsimile signature and the countersignature 'GEZ. V. W. KLEBER'. |
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| Signature(s) | Fritz Wagner |
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St. Aegyd am Neuwald is a small market town in Lower Austria's Mariazeller Land, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1914 and the early 1920s — a direct response to the acute small-change shortage caused by wartime hoarding of metal coinage. Local authorities were authorized, informally at first and then with increasing tolerance from Vienna, to print their own emergency fractions. The signature of Fritz Wagner almost certainly represents a local official rather than any named printer.