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20 Heller St. Pölten - Deutsche national-sozialistische Arbeiterpartei
| Issuer | Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei, Ortsorganisation St. Pölten |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress note with an outer border of stylised floral guilloche. The denomination '20' appears in green within a central hexagonal cartouche at the top, flanked by the inscriptions 'Schein' to the left and 'Heller' to the right. Two oval vignettes, each enclosing a bouquet of flowers, are positioned symmetrically at the lower left and right. The centre field carries the issuing authority text, validity date of 31 December 1920, issue date of 21 June 1920, a manuscript signature, and at the lower margin the designer credit 'Entwurf: Gustl Heger'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Schein 20 Heller Zur Erleichterung des Zahlungsverkehres mit Gültigkeit bis 31. Dezember 1920 Ausgegeben von der Deutschen national-sozialistischen Arbeiterpartei, Ortsorganisation St. Pölten 21. Juni 1920 Entwurf: Gustl Heger |
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This is an early NSDAP-issued emergency currency — Notgeld — from St. Pölten, Lower Austria, dating to 1920, well before the party had any meaningful national foothold. The Ortsorganisation St. Pölten was among the Austrian branches of the Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei, the Austrian predecessor party that Hitler himself had belonged to before the German NSDAP absorbed its identity and mythology. Issuing small-denomination scrip was a practical necessity during the Notgeld period, but for a fringe political organization to print its own circulating notes was also an act of institutional self-assertion.
Gustl Heger's design credit is notably specific — unusually so for provincial Notgeld of this denomination.