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20 Heller St. Georgen an der Leys
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Georgen an der Leys (Municipality of Sankt Georgen an der Leys) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a letterpress vignette of the parish church of St. Georgen an der Leys set in a rural hillside landscape with trees in the foreground, enclosed within an ornate dark-green scrollwork border with decorative corner pieces. To the right, on an ochre-yellow geometric underprint, the denomination '20' appears in a dark oval cartouche flanked by the word 'Heller' on each side, below which the large Gothic script legend 'Gutschein' dominates the field, followed by issuing authority text, validity clause, and four printed facsimile signatures of municipal officials arranged in two columns. |
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| Signature(s) | Anton Prenninger (Bürgermeister), Alois Schweighofer (Vizebürgermeister), Ig. Kreil (Gemeinderat) and August Schachinger (Gemeinderat) |
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St. Georgen an der Leys is a small Austrian municipality, and this Heller note belongs to the vast wave of local Notgeld issued across Austria during the severe coin shortage of World War One. With four signatories — the mayor, vice-mayor, and two council members — the authorization structure reflects the cautious, committee-style legitimacy small parishes needed to justify issuing their own emergency currency. Four signatures on a 20 Heller note is not unusual for the period, but it does underscore how seriously even minor municipalities treated the legal exposure of paper emission.