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30 Heller Schwarzenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schwarzenau (Municipality of Schwarzenau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper in black letterpress, the obverse is divided into two panels: the left panel carries a heraldic shield vignette bearing a cross with a crowned medallion at its centre, below which the issuer inscription reads 'Gemeinde Schwarzenau / N.-Österreich.' in Gothic script. The right panel bears the denomination heading 'Kassenschein über Dreißig 30 Heller' in decorative Fraktur lettering, beneath which a central landscape vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Schwarzenau set among rolling hills. The validity clause 'Nur giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920.' appears to the left of the vignette, and three facsimile signature lines for Finanzreferent, Bürgermeister, and Vize-Bürgermeister are printed below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein über Dreißig 30 Heller Nur giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Gemeinde Schwarzenau N.-Österreich. Finanzreferent: Otto Engel Bürgermeister: Aug. Hutterer Vize-Bürgermeister: Joh. Lugerner |
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Schwarzenau is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to fill the vacuum left by the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system and the chronic shortage of metal coinage in the early Republic. This 30 Heller denomination sits in the middle of the typical municipal issue range, authorized locally and signed by three officials: the finance officer and both the mayor and vice-mayor, an unusually full slate of signatories for a note of this size.
The triple signature requirement suggests the municipality was taking its fiduciary obligations seriously, or at minimum covering itself legally.