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20 Heller Ennsdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ennsdorf (Municipality of Ennsdorf) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue letterpress note with an ornate geometric border of interlocking square motifs framing the entire face. The denomination numeral '20' appears in each upper corner, with the title 'GUTSCHEIN der Gemeinde Ennsdorf, N.-Öst.' across the top and the value spelled out 'Zwanzig Heller' flanking a central circular vignette bearing a crossed agricultural implement and floral device. A guarantee text below reads that the municipality of Ennsdorf, Lower Austria, pledges its entire communal assets, followed by three manuscript signatures above the roles of Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue letterpress reverse enclosed by a fine dotted circular-link border, with the denomination '20' in each corner and the heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Ennsdorf, Nieder-Österr.' across the top. The central vignette presents a detailed street scene of a Lower Austrian village, with a two-storey municipal or commercial building flanked by large trees and a horse-drawn carriage in the foreground. Below the vignette, the validity date and anti-counterfeiting warning are printed in two columns. |
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Ennsdorf's 20 Heller notgeld dates from the Austrian municipal emergency currency wave of 1920–1921, when chronic coin shortages — a direct consequence of wartime metal requisitions and postwar monetary chaos — forced hundreds of small communities to print their own fractional scrip. Ennsdorf, a small municipality on the Enns river near Steyr, contracted the job to Emil Prietzel, a local Steyr printer who handled notgeld commissions for several surrounding communities during this period.
The JPR0178b designation indicates a variant within the Ennsdorf series, suggesting at least one other emission exists for comparison.