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20 Heller Kitzbühel
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Kitzbühel |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0449Ih-20 |
| Obverse description | Dark-toned Notgeld note with Gothic blackletter script at upper left reading the issuer name and denomination text. The municipal coat of arms of Kitzbühel, dated 1783, is placed in the upper centre. To the right, a bold woodcut-style vignette illustrates the twin-towered parish church of Kitzbühel with its characteristic onion domes. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in the left field within an ornate cartouche with dotted border, the numeral in red and the word 'Heller' in a larger Gothic typeface. A facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appears at lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE KITZBÜHEL |
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Austrian municipal notgeld issued under the emergency currency provisions that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Kitzbühel, a small Tyrolean market town, was among hundreds of Austrian municipalities forced to print their own fractional scrip in 1920 to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage — the coin metal itself had largely vanished from circulation during and after the war.
The Jaksch reference places this within the documented Tyrolean notgeld corpus. Authentication relies on the applied municipal stamp rather than any printed security element, which makes unstamped remainders a known hazard with this series.