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20 Heller St. Lorenz am Mondsee
| Issuer | Municipality of Sankt Lorenz am Mondsee |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 October 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller St. Lorenz am Mondsee. Ober-Österreich. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is set within a single-rule border and dominated by a block of Gothic blackletter text in black and red affirming the note's redemption terms. At left, a vertical ornamental vine motif frames a small red-and-black panel inscribed '20 Heller'. The text body states that this voucher will be redeemed by the Municipality of St. Lorenz am Mondsee until 31 October 1920 in legal currency, followed by the printed title 'der Bürgermeister:' and the manuscript facsimile signature of the mayor. |
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Sankt Lorenz am Mondsee is a small village on the western shore of the Mondsee in Upper Austria — the kind of place that would never have issued paper money under normal circumstances. This is Notgeld, the emergency small-change currency that flooded Austria in the early postwar years when coin metal had been stripped out of circulation during the war and the central monetary system had yet to recover. Thousands of Austrian municipalities printed their own fractional notes; most are artistically negligible. Gerstenbrand's work for this series is among the more carefully composed of the regional designs.