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40 Heller Bischofstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bischofstetten (Municipality of Bischofstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0092c-40 |
| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld on cream paper with a decorative border of interlocking geometric motifs. The central vignette presents a panoramic view of Bischofstetten with its church and surrounding buildings, flanked by two rustic allegorical figures — a harvester to the left and a seated female figure to the right — both set among foliage. The denomination '40' is printed in bold numerals within a rectangular panel at centre below the vignette, flanked by the inscription 'HELLER' on each side, with the issuing authority text and Bürgermeister signature block occupying the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper with a multi-layered rectangular border incorporating small ornamental corner pieces. The central circular vignette contains a sprouting wheat sheaf rising from a mound of grain against radiating lines, enclosed within a circular legend band. The denomination '40' appears in squared cartouches at the upper left and upper right, with vertical text panels on each lateral margin carrying anti-counterfeiting and validity inscriptions. |
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Bischofstetten is a small Lower Austrian market commune that, like hundreds of similar municipalities, issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The 40 Heller denomination was among the more commonly needed values for everyday small transactions, and local Notgeld at this level was printed in enormous variety across Austria between 1919 and 1921, most of it never redeemed after the schilling reforms made it worthless.
The single signature, Riesinger, almost certainly belongs to the Bürgermeister at the time. Municipal records from this period are fragmentary.