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 | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress note with an oval beaded border framing the central text area, within which the issuer name and legal tender declaration are printed in Gothic script, noting validity until 30 December 1920, with facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister below. To the lower left, a vignette of Schloss Hohrnbach is set within an oval surround, while to the upper right a further vignette of the Elisabeth-Warte monument appears outside the main border. The denomination '20 Heller' is displayed in a circle at upper left. |
| 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.