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20 Heller Ober-Grafendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Vorstehung Ober-Grafendorf (Municipality of Ober-Grafendorf) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Zwanzig Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Ober-Grafendorf N. Oe. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde gibt diesen Gutschein für einen Betrag von 10.000 Kronen aus und löst je 5 Stück desselben bis 31. Oktober 1920 gegen eine d.-ö. Kronennote ein. Fälschungen sind von der Einlösung ausgeschlossen und werden gerichtlich verfolgt. Gemeinde-Vorstehung Ober-Grafendorf. SOMMER, ST. PÖLTEN |
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Ober-Grafendorf is a small market town in Lower Austria, west of St. Pölten, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities during World War One when coin metal was requisitioned for the war effort and small change effectively disappeared from daily commerce. Thousands of Austrian communes issued their own emergency pfennig-range denominations between roughly 1916 and 1921, printed by whatever local press was available — in this case, Sommer in nearby St. Pölten.
The Jaksc catalogue reference places it firmly in the Lower Austrian municipal series. Few of these hyperlocal issues survived in quantity.