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25 Heller Schwarzenthal
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Schwarzenthal |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Ortsgemeinde Schwarzenthal Gutschein Einlösetermin: 31. Dez. 1920 Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft Ortsvorsteher Franz Zeilinger 25 HELLER |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse on plain cream paper stock, showing only the texture and horizontal laid lines of the paper with no design, text, or ornamentation. |
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Schwarzenthal is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly obscure municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that followed Austria's postwar economic collapse. These hyper-local issues were authorized under emergency provisions and typically printed in tiny quantities — often a few hundred to a few thousand pieces — by whatever local printer was available. Franz Zeilinger's signature here almost certainly represents a municipal official rather than a banker.
The extreme localization of Austrian Notgeld from this period makes provenance everything. Village-level issues frequently survived only in collector sets assembled at the time of issue.