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20 Heller Euratsfeld
| Issuer | Gemeinde Euratsfeld (Municipality of Euratsfeld) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Tan and brown Notgeld voucher in an Art Nouveau-influenced letterpress design. At the top, a decorative arched cartouche bears the legend GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE EURATSFELD, flanked by the district inscription BEZIRK AMSTETTEN to the left and NIEDER OESTERR. to the right. A central vignette in sepia tone presents a view of the Euratsfeld parish church amid trees and clouds, framed by two denomination panels each carrying the numeral 20 and the letter H within ornate foliate borders. Below the vignette, the validity date GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZ. 1920 is printed, followed by three facsimile signatures of the Deputy Mayor, the Mayor (Joh. Fehetgruber), and the Municipal Councillor. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE EURATSFELD BEZIRK AMSTETTEN NIEDER OESTERR. ZWANZIG HELLER 20 H GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZ. 1920 DER BÜRGERMEISTER STELLV. DER BÜRGERMEISTER DER GEMEINDERAT: ROBERT LEITNER |
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Euratsfeld is a small municipality in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the acute coin shortage of World War One. Local governments, cooperatives, and even individual businesses issued their own small-denomination emergency money when the central authorities could no longer supply enough coinage for daily transactions. Franz Klelar's print shop in nearby Amstetten handled production for several of these municipal issues in the region.
Robert Leitner's involvement as designer is worth noting — local Notgeld frequently recruited schoolteachers, postmasters, or amateur artists, and the quality varied accordingly.