Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
20 Heller Alkoven
| Issuer | Gemeinde Alkoven (Municipality of Alkoven) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on grey-green paper within a repeating ornamental border, the obverse carries a letterpress vignette at left illustrating the parish church of Alkoven with its distinctive tower set against a landscape, attributed to the artist Standler. The denomination '20' appears in large Gothic numerals at upper left, with the value 'Zwanzig Heller' rendered in bold Fraktur script. Issuing authority legend, validity date, municipal guarantee clause, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister complete the design. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse, also in dark brown on grey-green paper within a plain rectangular border, places the denomination numeral '20' in each corner. An oval vignette of a decorative urn with floral motif appears at top and bottom centre, flanked by the issuer name 'Gemeinde Alkoven'. The central field contains a framed four-line rhyming verse in Fraktur script with small ornamental devices at the frame's sides, and the printer's imprint is set at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Austrian municipal notgeld of this period exists in enormous quantities, but the Alkoven 20 Heller is among the more precisely documented smaller issues — Jos. Feichtingers Erben was a well-established Linz commercial printer that handled a significant share of Upper Austrian communal emergency currency after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation by 1919–1920.
The single signature of J. Haselmayr almost certainly represents the Bürgermeister or a designated municipal treasurer authorized to validate the issue. Alkoven itself is a small market community on the south bank of the Danube, with a population at the time of only a few hundred — making even modest print runs relatively scarce today.