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20 Heller Kufstein, Purple issue
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Kufstein |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Purple and black Notgeld gutschein printed on white paper, with a fine wavy-line guilloche underprint covering the entire field in violet. To the left, a detailed black vignette of Kufstein fortress and town architecture, with the municipal coat of arms below. The large denomination numeral '20' in ornate gothic script occupies the centre, flanked to the right by the word 'Heller' in matching blackletter type. Issuer name and place-date 'Kufstein, 1. Juni 1919' appear in blackletter, with a facsimile mayoral signature at lower right. |
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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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Kufstein's municipal emergency notes of 1919 belong to the vast Notgeld phenomenon that swept Austria and Germany as central banking collapsed under postwar conditions. The Stadtgemeinde — the town municipality — issued these small-denomination pieces to plug the acute shortage of small change, not as a monetary policy decision but out of sheer practical necessity. Coins had vanished from circulation almost entirely.
The purple designation distinguishes this from other color variants within the same Kufstein 20 Heller series, suggesting multiple print runs rather than a single unified issue — a common pattern in Austrian municipal Notgeld where local printers worked with whatever ink stocks were available.