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75 Heller Schönau im Mühlkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schönau im Mühlkreis (Municipality of Schönau im Mühlkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Fünf und siebzig Heller NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE SCHÖNAU 75 Die Gemeinde Schönau löst diesen Schein bis 31. Dez. 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein Laut Beschluss der Gemeindeausschusssitzung vom 4. Mai 1920. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft Der Bürgermeister |
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| Reverse lettering | 75 |
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Schönau im Mühlkreis is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 75 Heller Notgeld belongs to the wave of locally issued emergency currency that Austrian municipalities produced between 1920 and 1921 when small-denomination coinage all but vanished from circulation after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. These Gemeinde-issued notes were legal within their issuing community only and were typically redeemed within months — which is precisely why so many were cancelled or destroyed, and why intact uncirculated examples survive in greater numbers than genuinely circulated ones.
The designer credit to Joh. Amneslofer is uncommon; most rural Upper Austrian Notgeld series were designed anonymously or by local schoolteachers and minor functionaries. That a named designer appears on the JPR0967a series suggests at least modest local ambition in the commission.