Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
20 Heller Weistrach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weistrach (Municipality of Weistrach) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with a large woodcut-style vignette occupying the lower right portion, showing a panoramic view of Weistrach with a prominent church steeple amid a rural landscape. To the left, a rustic figure of an elderly man in a wide-brimmed hat sits at a table holding a jug, rendered in fine woodcut style. A decorative ribbon banner across the upper centre bears the issuer inscription, flanked at upper left by a dialectal Austrian verse in Gothic script, with the denomination '20 Heller' displayed at upper right within a scroll. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Weistrach Die Gemeinde Weistrach haftet für die Verbindlichkeit bis 30. Dezember 1920. Bürgermeister: Vizebürgermeister: Schloss Hohrnbach Elisabeth-Warte 20 Heller N.Ö. |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Weistrach is a small parish municipality in Lower Austria, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the coins shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. F. Lielar was a local Amstetten printer with no particular prestige in the Notgeld world, which keeps this firmly in the category of purely functional emergency scrip rather than the decorative collector-targeted issues produced by larger towns.
The Jaksc/Pick reference JPR1161c indicates a third variant within the Weistrach series, suggesting at least minor printing or color differences across issues.