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20 Heller St. Valentin
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Vorstehung St. Valentin (Municipality of Sankt Valentin) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 HELLER Die Gemeinde St. Valentin gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Betrage von 50.000 Kronen aus. (G.R.B. vom 14\II. 1920). Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dezember 1920 im Gemeinde-Amte St. Valentin, Nied: Öst in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde-Vorstehung St. Valentin. Gutschein über zwanzig Heller 20 Die Gemeinde St. Valentin löst diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 1–31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzl. Bargeld ein. Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Nachahmung wird bestraft Vizebürgermeister: Bürgermeister: Gemeinde-Kassier: Paul Prietzl, Steyr |
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St. Valentin is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Local administrations were legally permitted to issue their own fractional emergency currency, and hundreds did. Paul Prietzl operated a small commercial printing house in nearby Steyr and handled a number of these municipal commissions across the region.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0941-20 places it firmly within the documented Lower Austrian Notgeld corpus, though St. Valentin issues are not among the more frequently encountered survivors.