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20 Heller Weitra
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Weitra |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue-grey on a cream paper with a herringbone underprint. In the upper portion, the denomination numeral '20' appears in decorative cartouches at both corners flanking the title 'Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Weitra N.Ö.' in Gothic blackletter script, with 'Zwanzig Heller' in large script below. To the left, a vignette illustrates the Weitra town hall building above the municipal coat of arms featuring a fortified tower, while the right portion carries the guarantee text, the issue date 'WEITRA, am 7. Mai 1920', and three manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister, Gemeinderat, and Vizebürgermeister, with the validity clause 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large central landscape vignette enclosed within a decorative rectangular frame with ornamental scrollwork at the top centre and denomination numerals '20' in squared cartouches at each upper corner. The vignette presents a panoramic view of Weitra with the hilltop castle ruins at left and the Gothic parish church steeple rising above the town roofline at right, set against an open countryside. Below the vignette, a two-line anti-counterfeiting notice is printed in Gothic script. |
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Weitra, a small walled town in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, issued notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The Habsburg monetary system had effectively collapsed, and municipalities across Austria filled the gap themselves, printing low-denomination paper in denominations nobody had bothered to produce in metal.
The 20 Heller was among the most common notgeld denominations issued by Austrian Stadtgemeinden in 1920, as the heller itself was already an obsolete unit by the time the Austrian krone was replaced by the schilling in 1925.