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20 Heller Kufstein, Blue issue
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Kufstein (Municipality of Kufstein) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue and black on plain paper, the note carries a woodcut-style vignette at the left depicting Kufstein fortress with its characteristic round tower and surrounding structures. The large denomination numeral '20' dominates the centre in bold Gothic script, accompanied by the word 'Heller' in ornate lettering to the right, with 'Gutschein über' above. A wave-pattern guilloche underprint fills the blue background throughout, while the issuing authority 'Stadtgemeinde Kufstein' appears in decorative Fraktur script across the top. The date 'Kufstein, 1 Juni 1919', a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister, and the redemption clause appear in the lower portion. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Kufstein Gutschein über 20 Heller welcher spätestens am 31. Dezember 1919 zur Einlösung aufgerufen wird Der Bürgermeister Kufstein, 1 Juni 1919 |
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Austrian municipal notgeld from 1919 occupies a peculiar corner of European monetary history — following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, hundreds of small towns issued their own emergency paper because the new Austrian state simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to meet daily transactional needs. Kufstein, a market town on the Inn River at the Bavarian border, was among them. The "blue issue" designation distinguishes this 20 Heller from earlier or parallel printings of the same denomination in different ink colors — a common but catalogers' nightmare practice among Tirolean municipal issuers.
Local printing, done under improvised conditions, means registration and color consistency vary considerably across surviving examples.