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20 Heller Weinzierl bei Wieselburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weinzierl bei Wieselburg (Municipality of Weinzierl bei Wieselburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller der Gemeinde Weinzierl, nö. Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Die Gemeinde Weinzierl löst diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 15. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: der Gemeinderat: Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress on cream paper with a fine guilloche underprint overall. The denomination '20 Heller' appears in bold numerals and script lettering at upper left and right respectively. The central vignette presents a detailed landscape view of the Weinzierl estate — a manor house, church, and outbuildings set against a wooded hillside — enclosed within a ruled rectangular frame with decorative foliate sprigs at the lower corners. Below the vignette, a Gothic-script inscription records that Joseph Haydn spent happy years at this castle from 1757 to 1759. |
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Weinzierl bei Wieselburg is a small Lower Austrian municipality, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a period when chronic coin shortages forced hundreds of communes to print their own fractional currency. The federal government tolerated rather than authorized these issues, and most were redeemed and destroyed within months, which is why surviving examples skew toward uncirculated: collectors were already hoarding them as novelties before the ink dried.
The Jaksc reference places this among the more obscure rural Austrian issues, with no known printing curiosity or error variant attached to the "b" suffix beyond a color or paper distinction from the "a" type.