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20 Heller St. Pölten
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde St. Pölten (City of Sankt Pölten) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | Gutenberg, St. Pölten |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in black on plain white paper and carries only typeset text without pictorial vignettes. The heading repeats the note's title and denomination, followed by a justification paragraph explaining that the municipality issues these Kassenscheine to a total value of 150,000 Kronen to alleviate the small-change shortage, that they bear no interest, are accepted in payment by the Gemeinde St. Pölten until 30 June 1920, and are redeemable in legal tender from 1 to 30 June 1920. A final warning line states that counterfeiting is punishable by law. |
| Reverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde St. Pölten über 20 Heller. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde St. Pölten Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 150.000 Kronen aus. — Dieselben sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde St. Pölten bis 30. Juni 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 1. bis 30. Juni 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this period emerged from a genuine small-change crisis — the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left towns scrambling for fractional currency, and St. Pölten, as Lower Austria's administrative center, was among the hundreds of municipalities that commissioned their own stopgap issues in 1919. The Gutenberg press in St. Pölten produced this locally, keeping the entire operation within the city.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places it firmly in the documented Austrian notgeld corpus, though survival rates for low-denomination heller notes vary considerably — the smaller the face value, the harder the paper was used before being discarded.