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20 Heller Weitersfelden
| Issuer | Marktkommune Weitersfelden |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Marktkommune Weitersfelden gibt auf Grund des Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 12. Juni 1920 Notgeld im Gesamtbetrage von 15.000 K. aus und haftet für die Einlösung mit ihrem gesamten Aktivvermögen. Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Nachahmung wird bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central rectangular vignette framed by a bold geometric step-pattern border in black letterpress. Within the vignette, the denomination numeral "20" appears in large bold type at left and right, each followed by the word "Heller" below, flanking the municipal coat of arms of Weitersfelden — a red shield bearing a crenellated tower with a gateway, flanked by two bare trees. The header inscription names the issuing authority above the central design. |
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Austrian Notgeld at the smallest scale of civic issue. Weitersfelden is a rural market commune in Upper Austria — the kind of municipality that turned to emergency local currency in 1920 not out of institutional ambition but out of sheer necessity, as the postwar coin shortage left small transactions impossible to complete with official money. The Marktkommune had the legal standing to issue but virtually no printing infrastructure, which is why most rural Austrian Notgeld of this period was produced by regional printers working from standardized templates with locally inserted text.
The JPR1165 series is among the less-documented Upper Austrian issues. Surviving examples are rarely encountered in dealer stock.