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20 Heller Unterweitersdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Unterweitersdorf (Municipality of Unterweitersdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with a central oval vignette of a large multi-storey rural building surrounded by trees, rendered in fine line engraving style. A ribbon cartouche beneath the vignette bears the inscription 'Versteck des Bauernadvokathen Kalchgruber. 1821-1848', while the denomination '20 Heller' appears in circular medallions at upper left and right within a decorative floral and scroll border. The designer's credit 'L. Haase, Linz' is printed in small text at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Unterweitersdorf bei Galineukirchen in Oberösterreich gibt laut Gemeindebeſchluß vom 15. Mai 1920 zur Abhilfe des Kleingeldmangels Gutſcheine zu 10, 20 und 50 Heller aus. Dieſe Gutſcheine ſind unverzinslich und werden vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in geſetzlichem Bargelde beim Gemeindeamte Unterweitersdorf eingelöſt. Unterweitersdorf, 15. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister und dessen Stellvertreter: Die Nachmachung dieses Notgeldes wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Unterweitersdorf is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in the early 1920s, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to fill the vacuum left by the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. The postwar Austrian state was in no position to supply them. So local governments, businesses, and even individual shops printed their own.
L. Haase of Linz was a regional commercial printer responsible for a number of Upper Austrian municipal issues in this period, which accounts for the consistency of execution across several Jaksc-catalogued notes from the same district.