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20 Heller Traisen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Traisen (Municipality of Traisen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR1076Ib-20 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Traisen Heller 20 Heller Die Gemeinde Traisen haftet für dieses Notgeld und löst selbes nur vom 15. bis 30. Juni 1920 im gesetzlichen Gelde ein. Jede Nachahmung wird bestraft T. Roitner Bürgermeister F. Gasperlmayer Vizebürgermeister L. Kinzl Gemeinderat Ohne Gemeindesiegelprägung ungültig |
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| Signature(s) | T. Roitner (Bürgermeister), F. Gasperlmayer (Vizebürgermeister) and L. Kinzl (Gemeinderat) |
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Traisen 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 governments were legally permitted to issue small-denomination emergency paper, and hundreds did. Most circulated only within their own district.
Three signatories authenticated each note: the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat member — a formality that gave the paper at least the appearance of municipal authority. The embossed seal served as the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, modest by any standard but adequate for a note that would rarely travel far from its town of issue.