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20 Heller Waidhofen an der Ybbs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Waidhofen an der Ybbs |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note on cream paper with a decorative dotted border. To the left, a vignette of the Waidhofen an der Ybbs town tower with the municipal coat of arms below; to the right, the denomination numeral "20" appears in a ruled box at upper right, with the authority inscription "Notgeld der Stadtgemeinde Waidhofen a/d Ybbs" and the value legend "Zwanzig Heller" in bold Gothic script. Below, a liability text in German is followed by the place and date "Waidhofen a.d. Ybbs am 1. Feber 1920" and three manuscript signatures with printed role designations for the deputy mayor, mayor, and town councillor. |
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| Reverse lettering | Entworfen: Robert Schönbrunner. Notgeld der Stadtgemeinde Waidhofen an der Ybbs über zwanzig Heller. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Stadtgemeinde Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs für Dreißigtausend Kronen Notgeld-Scheine aus. Diese Scheine lauten auf 20 Heller, sind unverzinslich, werden von der Stadtgemeinde Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs bis 31. Dezember 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Notgeld-Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Druckerei Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs, Ges. m. b. H. |
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This is a Notgeld issue — emergency small-change currency printed locally to address the acute coin shortage that plagued Austrian towns in the years immediately following the First World War. The Stadtgemeinde commissioned the design from Robert Schönbrunner and had it printed entirely within the town itself, an unusual degree of local self-sufficiency even by Notgeld standards, where municipal authorities more commonly contracted to Vienna or Graz printers.
The JPR1127a designation places this within the Jaksch cataloguing of Lower Austrian Notgeld, a collecting area where paper quality and print registration vary considerably across surviving examples due to the modest equipment available to provincial print shops in 1920.