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20 Heller St. Georgen am Ybbsfelde
| Issuer | Municipality of Sankt Georgen am Ybbsfelde |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0885I-20 |
| Obverse description | Brown notgeld note with an ornate guilloche border enclosing two panels. The left panel bears an oval vignette of Saint George on horseback slaying the dragon, framed by decorative scrollwork, with the inscription 'St. Georgen am 1. Mai 1920' below. The right panel carries the issuer title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Georgen a. Ybbsf.' in stylised lettering above the denomination '20 Heller' in bold boxed numerals, with facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat below, and the legend 'Nachdruck verboten' at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Brown note with an ornamental border enclosing a central diamond-shaped vignette of agricultural implements — a sheaf of grain, a rake, a scythe, and a wagon wheel — set against a dotted underprint, with the digits '1', '9', '2', '0' placed at the four corners of the diamond. Flanking text blocks state the municipality's guarantee of redemption on the left and the redemption deadline on the right. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in bold cartouches at lower left and lower right, a motto banner runs across the top, and the validity inscription 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920.' is centred at foot. |
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Sankt Georgen am Ybbsfelde is a small Lower Austrian municipality on the Ybbs River, and this 20 Heller note belongs to the wave of Austrian Notgeld issued after the First World War when the collapse of the Habsburg economy left small communities unable to obtain sufficient small-denomination coinage. Carl Queiser in nearby Amstetten was a local commercial printer, not a banknote specialist — the kind of firm that normally produced letterheads and invoices, pressed into service for emergency municipal scrip.
Three signatories authenticated the issue: the Bürgermeister, his deputy, and a single Gemeinderat. That's the minimum bureaucratic threshold. It suggests a rushed authorization.