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20 Heller St. Nikola an der Donau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde St. Nikola an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gut-Schein der Marktgemeinde St. Nikola a.D. Zwanzig Heller Nur gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Der Gemeinderath Der Bürgermeister Der Marktschreiber Marktgemeinde St. Nikola a/D. im Strudengau 20 |
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| Protection description | Large oval ink cancellation stamp applied to the reverse of the note |
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St. Nikola an der Donau is a small market town on the Danube in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld emergency — the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg empire. Municipal and local authorities across the former crownlands issued their own small-denomination scrip because the new Austrian state simply could not supply enough coinage to keep local commerce moving.
Printed by J. M. Hiebl in nearby Grein, the note is purely functional small-town work. The official stamp substitutes for any more sophisticated security measure — entirely typical of the lowest-value Notgeld issues from rural Upper Austrian communities in this period.