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20 Heller Stockerau
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Stockerau (City of Stockerau) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN DER STADT STOCKERAU ÜBER HELLER 20 HELLER DIE STADT STOCKERAU HAFTET FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEG-LICHEN VERMÖGEN. STOCKERAU, AM 3. DEZ. 1919. DER BÜRGERMEISTER: DER VICE-BÜRGERMEISTER: DER GEMEINDERAT: |
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| Reverse lettering | KASSENSCHEIN der Stadtgemeinde Stockerau über 20 Heller. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Stockerau Kassenscheine bis zum Gesamtbetrag von 100,000 Kronen aus. Diese Kassenscheine sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde Stockerau bis 15. August 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 1. bis 15. August 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieser Kassenscheine wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Stockerau's 20 Heller note is a product of the acute coin shortage that paralyzed small commerce across German-Austria in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. Municipal and district authorities were legally permitted to issue these Kleingeldersatz — small change substitutes — under emergency provisions, and hundreds of Austrian towns did exactly that between 1919 and 1921. The Stadtgemeinde Stockerau, a market town on the Danube plain north of Vienna, issued this alongside companion denominations to keep local retail transactions moving.
The near-square format is characteristic of the smaller Heller issues, where printing economy dictated the cutting.