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20 Heller Wallsee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wallsee an der Donau (Municipality of Wallsee on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on plain paper with a wavy-line guilloche background interspersed with small fish motifs. The municipality name 'Wallsee a.D.' is set in large Gothic blackletter script at centre, above a central vignette of the municipal coat of arms — a shield bearing a leaping fish over stylized waves — with the denomination numeral '20' superimposed on the shield. Guarantee text and issuance date appear in the lower left and right fields respectively, with the designer and printer credits in small script along the bottom margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Wallsee an der Donau was among the hundreds of Austrian municipalities that issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. These local emergency notes were a peculiarity of the early Austrian Republic — legally tolerated but not formally authorized by the central bank, filling a gap that Vienna showed little urgency to close. F. Kletar in Amstetten was a small regional printer, typical of the local sourcing that gave Austrian Notgeld its enormous variety in production quality.
The watermark security feature is notably ambitious for a municipal 20-Heller note; most comparable issues from villages of this scale dispensed with such measures entirely.