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20 Heller Tausendblum
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tausendblum (Municipality of Tausendblum) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue on cream paper and shares the same floral Art Nouveau border as the obverse, with daisy and bell-flower motifs at the corners. Denomination boxes reading '20 HELLER' are placed at upper left and upper right. At top centre the validity line 'Gültig bis 30 September 1920.' is inscribed. The central vignette, signed by the artist J. Kränzle, presents a rural scene of a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough across a field, rendered in detailed line engraving. Above this scene, an oval cartouche with crossed hammers and a handshake device bears the motto 'ARBEIT LOHNT' in bold lettering. A warning against counterfeiting appears in a panel at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | 20 HELLER Gültig bis 30 September 1920. ARBEIT LOHNT Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Tausendblum was a small German-speaking village in Moravia — today Tisovice in the Czech Republic — and like hundreds of similar municipalities across the former Habsburg lands, it issued its own emergency paper money after the collapse of Austria-Hungary left coin supplies in chaos. These Heller-denomination Notgeld notes were never meant to last; they were stopgap instruments, printed locally and redeemable in theory once coin circulation normalized.
J. Kränzle's credit as designer is notable — small commune issues this specific rarely attracted named designers. Whether Kränzle was a local craftsman or a regional commercial artist brought in for the series is not currently documented.