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60 Heller Schwarzenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schwarzenau (Municipality of Schwarzenau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 60 Hellers (0.6) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green on buff paper, the obverse is divided into two vertical panels: the left panel carries the municipal coat of arms of Schwarzenau — a shield bearing a cross with a central medallion — above the issuer inscription in Gothic script, while the right panel presents the denomination in large ornate lettering at the top, beneath which a central vignette offers a panoramic townscape of Schwarzenau with a church spire and surrounding hills. The validity date '31. Dezember 1920' appears to the right of the vignette, and three facsimile signatures of the Finanzreferent, Bürgermeister, and Vize-Bürgermeister are arranged along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in green on plain buff paper, is enclosed within a simple decorative border with ornamental corner pieces. The entire field is occupied by a legal guarantee text in German Gothic (Fraktur) script, pledging the municipality's movable and immovable assets as security for the obligation, followed by the place and date of issue, and a statutory anti-counterfeiting warning. |
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Schwarzenau is a small village in Lower Austria, and this 60 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to cover a crippling shortage of small-denomination coins. The three signatories — a finance officer, a mayor, and a vice-mayor — reflect how seriously even minor rural communes treated the administrative formality of emergency issue.
The 60 Heller denomination is slightly awkward, suggesting it was calculated to meet a specific local need rather than issued as part of a tidy series.