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80 Heller Eckartsau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eckartsau (Municipality of Eckartsau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 86 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central oval vignette enclosed within an ornate scrollwork border, presenting a detailed letterpress view of Schloss Eckartsau, the baroque hunting palace that served as Emperor Karl I's last residence in Austria. Denomination numerals '80' appear in circular cartouches at the upper left and upper right corners, flanked by the word 'Heller' in Gothic script, with the subtitle 'Kaiser Karls letzter Aufenthalt in Oesterreich' arching above the vignette. Below the central image, the issuer's name 'Kassenschein der Gemeinde Eckartsau' is set in bold Gothic lettering, with an anti-counterfeiting notice 'Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft' printed along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIE KASSENSCHEINE DER GEMEINDE ECKARTSAU SIND UNVERZINSLICH UND WERDEN BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920 IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN. DIE GEMEINDE ECKARTSAU HAFTET FÜR DIE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN VERMÖGEN. BÜRGERMEISTER: GEMEINDERAT: VICEBÜRGERMEISTER: |
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Eckartsau sits on the Danube floodplain east of Vienna, and in late 1918 it served as the final Austrian refuge of Emperor Karl I before his exile — he signed his withdrawal from state affairs there in November 1918. The municipality issued this 80 Heller note two years later as a Notgeld, part of the wider Austrian emergency local coinage phenomenon driven by the chronic small-denomination coin shortages that plagued the new republic through the early 1920s.
The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one — most Notgeld series favored round figures — suggesting the municipality was deliberately plugging a specific gap in local change.