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20 Heller St. Oswald
| Issuer | Gemeinde St. Oswald (Municipality of St. Oswald, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein 20 Heller Gemeinde St. Oswald Nied. Oest. Kirche St. Oswald |
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| Reverse lettering | Kassenschein der Gemeinde St.-Oswald. 20 Heller für welche die Gemeinde haftet. Dieser Schein wird in gesetzlicher Währung vom 1. bis 31. März 1921 eingelöst. St.-Oswald, am 11. April 1920. Ignaz Leonhartsberger, Bürgermeister. Karl Scheuchenstuhl. Leopold Fischl. Siedler, Pöggstall. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld from the immediate postwar period, when the collapse of the Habsburg economy left small communities printing their own fractional currency to address a chronic shortage of small coins. St. Oswald is a village in the Waldviertel district of Lower Austria — that this issue was printed locally by Siedler in nearby Pöggstall rather than contracted to a Vienna house suggests a purely functional production, not the decorative collector-targeted notgeld that flooded the market in the same years.
Three signatories authenticate the note: the Bürgermeister Leonhartsberger, plus two municipal witnesses. That level of formal attestation on a 20 Heller piece speaks to how seriously even tiny administrations took the legal exposure of issuing private scrip.