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20 Heller Kirchberg am Wagram
| Issuer | Markt-Gemeinde Kirchberg am Wagram |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green and black letterpress Notgeld note designed by Curt Sauer, whose name appears in the lower left margin. The central text panel, set within an ornate cartouche of bold Art Nouveau scrollwork, carries the issuing authority's declaration in German script and blackletter typefaces. Numeral '20' appears in each of the four corners within decorative roundels formed by acanthus-style volutes. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Markt-Gemeinde Kirchberg am Wagram haftet für dieses NOTGELD mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen u. löst selbes in der Zeit vom 1.-31. Dezember 1920 gegen ZWANZIG HELLER ein. Kirchberg a. Wagram am 1. Juli 1920. Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type was a direct consequence of the coin shortages that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918 — municipal authorities across German-Austria were legally permitted, briefly, to issue their own small-denomination emergency paper to fill the gap left by vanishing metal coinage. Kirchberg am Wagram, a small market town in Lower Austria, issued its series under that provision.
Curt Sauer's involvement places this among the artistically commissioned Notgeld rather than the purely functional variety — Sauer worked on multiple Austrian municipal series during this period. The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0439IIa identifies the 20 Heller as the lower of two denominations in the Kirchberg issue.