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20 Heller Königswiesen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Königswiesen (Market Municipality of Königswiesen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative border with ornamental corner motifs and boxed denomination numerals '20' in each upper corner. A central vignette presents a line-art view of the Königswiesen parish church with its tall steeple set against a clouded sky, flanked on either side by the large Gothic-style denomination inscription 'Zwanzig Heller'. The issuer's name 'KÖNIGSWIESEN' is split across the upper portion of the note, with the full legal text of the municipality's guarantee, the place and date 'Königswiesen, am 6 April 1920', and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appearing in the lower field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in purple on cream paper and consists entirely of text set within a dotted rectangular border, with boxed numerals '20' placed at each of the four corners. The main body carries a multi-line declaration in German Kurrent-style typeface stating the total issue amount of 60,000 Kronen and the redemption conditions, followed by a bold anti-counterfeiting warning in a larger typeface at the foot of the note. |
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Königswiesen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a piece of Austrian Notgeld — the wave of locally issued emergency currency that flooded the country between roughly 1919 and 1922 as the newly truncated Republic struggled with coin shortages and monetary chaos following the collapse of the Habsburg state. Thousands of municipalities issued their own small-denomination notes during this period, most printed in limited runs and quickly collected as novelty items rather than spent.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 on a 1920 Notgeld note is almost certainly a catalog or documentation date, not a reissue.