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20 Heller Kufstein
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Kufstein (Municipality of Kufstein) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown ink on a pink-toned paper with a fine guilloche underprint covering the entire field. A woodcut-style vignette at the left depicts the Kufstein fortress tower with the municipal coat of arms below it. The large gothic numeral '20' and the denomination 'Heller' in bold blackletter script dominate the centre-right, with the heading 'Stadtgemeinde Kufstein Gutschein' across the top. The redemption text, issue date 'Kufstein, 1. Juni 1919', and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appear in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and shows a plain cream-coloured paper surface, with a faint show-through impression of the obverse design visible due to the thinness of the paper stock. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this period emerged directly from the coin shortages that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy — by 1919, small-denomination metal coinage had effectively vanished from everyday transactions, and hundreds of towns issued their own emergency paper to fill the gap. Kufstein, a Tyrolean border town, was among them. The Stadtgemeinde had no printing infrastructure of its own; most Tyrolean municipal issues of this type were produced by local commercial printers with inconsistent results, which accounts for the considerable variation in paper quality and impression sharpness across surviving examples of this series.