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20 Heller Christofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Christofen (Municipality of Christofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Circular municipality stamp applied in blue ink on the reverse over the central denomination numeral, serving as a validation seal; the obverse text states the note is invalid without the municipal seal (Gemeindesiegel). |
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Christofen is a small village in the Vorarlberg region of western Austria. This 20 Heller note is a Notgeld — emergency small-change scrip issued by hundreds of Austrian municipalities after the First World War, when metal coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely. The Gemeinde handled production locally; the official stamp was the only authentication measure considered necessary at that scale.
Heller-denomination Notgeld from Vorarlberg villages survives in collector hands far more often than it ever circulated — many issues were bought directly by German collectors even as they were printed, which inflated production runs and muddied any honest assessment of actual local use.