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80 Heller Schwarzenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schwarzenau (Municipality of Schwarzenau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in dark carmine on blue-green paper, is the note's mirror orientation. The larger left panel contains a decorative border with scrollwork corners enclosing the guarantee text dated 'Schwarzenau, am 1. Juni 1920', along with an anti-counterfeiting notice. The right panel repeats the municipal shield vignette and the 'Gemeinde Schwarzenau / N.-Österreich' inscription in mirrored letterpress, consistent with the note's reverse layout. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Schwarzenau haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Schwarzenau, am 1. Juni 1920. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Gemeinde Schwarzenau N.-Österreich. |
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Schwarzenau is a small market town in Lower Austria's Waldviertel, and like hundreds of similarly modest municipalities, it issued notgeld during the acute coin shortage that plagued Austria in the immediate postwar years. The 80 Heller denomination is specific to the Austrian notgeld phenomenon — a value that would make no sense outside that precise inflationary moment, when everyday small transactions had exhausted the supply of circulating metal.
Three signatures authenticate this note: the mayor, vice-mayor, and a finance officer, which was the typical administrative structure used to confer local legal weight on what was, strictly speaking, an unauthorized emission.