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20 Heller Ybbs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Ybbs (City of Ybbs) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with an ornate floral and scrollwork border framing a detailed vignette of the Ybbs parish church and townscape at left, with a figure of a saint atop a column at right. The heading in Gothic script reads 'Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Ybbs' with the denomination '20' in the upper corners, and a redemption text in German is printed to the right of the vignette. Three facsimile signatures of municipal officials appear at the lower centre, with an oak-leaf watermark-style underprint visible across the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | In großer Not war's ein Gebot SIGILLVM CIVITATIS ABSENSIS 1920 Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Die Abschreibung wird gesetzlich bestraft 20 |
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Ybbs an der Donau was one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced into emergency paper issuance following the economic collapse after the First World War. The federal government could not supply adequate small change, so towns and villages printed their own — Notgeld in the strictest sense, covering denominations the national system simply wasn't producing. Emil Prietzel in Steyr handled a significant volume of this regional emergency work across Upper and Lower Austria during 1920.
The Jaksc catalogue documents this as the 20 Heller value within the Ybbs series, distinguished from related issues by the suffix designation.