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20 Heller Weissenkirchen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Weissenkirchen in der Wachau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain paper with a simple ruled border frame and carries exclusively typeset text in Gothic Fraktur script. The upper portion bears a two-line patriotic verse attributed to Kernstock, followed by a formal notice in mixed display and text type stating the total issue amount of 64,000 Kronen, the validity period, and the redemption terms. An anti-counterfeiting warning closes the text at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Deutsch sein und zusammenhalten, Alles andre wird Gott walten! — Kernstock. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Weißenkirchen in der Wachau Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 64.000 Kronen aus. Dieselben sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde Weißenkirchen bis 30. November 1920 in Zahlung genommen und vom 15. bis 30. November 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Weissenkirchen in der Wachau is a small wine-producing market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — to address the acute small-change shortage that persisted well after the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left rural communities effectively without viable coinage, forcing local authorities to print their own fractional scrip.
These Austrian Gemeinde Notgeld issues were self-liquidating by design, redeemable once normal currency circulation resumed. Most were never redeemed in full.