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20 Heller Zell an der Ybbs
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Zell an der Ybbs (Market Town of Zell an der Ybbs) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Druckerei Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs, Ges. m. b. H. |
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| Obverse description | The left two-thirds of the note carry an engraved vignette of the Zell an der Ybbs townscape, with a church tower and timber-framed buildings rendered in fine letterpress line work against a clouded sky. A scroll banner at the top bears the denomination legend, with the numeral '20' repeated in the upper corners; below the vignette the town name 'ZELL a/d. Ybbs' appears in bold gothic lettering. Two heraldic cartouches flank the central vignette — the left bearing crossed tools with initials 'M ST' and a star, the right with a cross-and-orb motif and initials 'I. G. K.' — while the right third of the note is reserved for the dated authorization text and manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and Gemeinderath. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on plain paper and enclosed within a decorative border of repeating rosette-and-chain motifs. The upper portion carries the heading 'Notgeld der Marktgemeinde Zell a. d. Ybbs über 20 Heller.' in blackletter type, followed by a block of justified text in German Gothic script explaining the purpose and conditions of issue, the total issuance of 32,000 Kronen, the non-interest-bearing nature of the notes, and the redemption period of 1–31 December 1920. The printer's imprint appears in small roman type at the foot of the note. |
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This is an Austrian Notgeld piece, issued during the postwar inflationary emergency that forced hundreds of small municipalities to produce their own small-change notes between 1919 and 1921. The central government simply could not supply enough low-denomination coinage to meet demand, and market towns like Zell an der Ybbs filled the gap themselves. Printed locally in Waidhofen an der Ybbs — the nearest town of any commercial significance on the Ybbs river — rather than sent to Vienna, which kept costs down and turnaround fast.
The Jaksc catalog reference JPR1272-20 places this squarely within the documented Lower Austrian municipal issues. Designer A. Schönbrünner is otherwise unrecorded in major reference sources.