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20 Heller Weissenkirchen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Weissenkirchen in der Wachau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 30 November 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red and black on cream paper, the note carries the Gothic-script heading Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde at the top, with the denomination numeral 20 and the word Heller appearing in large red figures at left and right. A central circular vignette presents a line-engraved panoramic view of the market town of Weissenkirchen in der Wachau, with its church tower and riverside buildings rendered in fine detail. Below the vignette, two text blocks in Gothic script carry the municipal guarantee clause at left and the place, date (15. April 1920), and three facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and Gemeinderat at right; the issuer name Weissenkirchen in der Wachau appears in large Gothic lettering along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on plain cream paper with a simple ruled rectangular border, the reverse is devoted entirely to a justification text in Gothic script explaining the issuance of Kassenscheine by the municipality of Weissenkirchen in der Wachau to a total value of 64,000 Kronen, and stating the redemption terms from 15 to 30 November 1920. A counterfeiting warning concludes the body text, and the printer's imprint Paul Gerin, Wien, II. appears centred at the foot of the note. |
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Weissenkirchen in der Wachau was one of hundreds of Austrian market towns that resorted to printing their own emergency small change — Notgeld — after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left a severe coin shortage. Paul Gerin in Vienna was among the busiest printers of such local issues, producing notes for municipalities across Lower Austria during this period.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this squarely within the documented Austrian Notgeld corpus, but Weissenkirchen issues are not among the widely traded collector series and genuine circulation examples are harder to find than their urban counterparts.