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20 Heller Alkoven

Issuer Gemeinde Alkoven (Municipality of Alkoven)
Year 1920
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Value 20 Hellers (0.20)
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Obverse description Issued on plain buff paper with a violet letterpress border of simple ruled lines. To the left, a vignette of the Alkoven church and village rooftops rendered in fine line engraving. The large denomination numeral '20' occupies the upper left, integrated with the Gothic blackletter text 'Zwanzig Heller' to its right. A validity notice and guarantee text appear in the lower right, with the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, J. Haselmayr, beneath.
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Reverse description Plain buff paper with a violet letterpress frame enclosing a central text panel. The issuer name 'Gemeinde Alkoven' is set in Gothic blackletter at the top, flanked by the denomination numeral '20' in each corner. Two oval vignettes of a decorative floral urn appear at the top centre and bottom centre of the design. The central panel carries a four-line rhyming verse in Gothic script, with an anti-counterfeiting notice at the foot and the printer's imprint below the lower border.
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Signature(s) J. Haselmayr
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