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20 Heller Weitra
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Weitra (City of Weitra) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Weitra N.Ö. Zwanzig Heller Die Gemeinde Weitra haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. WEITRA, am 7. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister Gemeinderat Vizebürgermeister Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920. |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft |
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Weitra's 20 Heller notgeld belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency currency that Austrian towns were forced to produce between 1919 and 1921, when coin shortages made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The central government in Vienna had neither the capacity nor the inclination to remedy the problem quickly, leaving hundreds of Gemeinden to improvise with locally printed paper.
Weitra, one of the oldest chartered towns in Lower Austria, printed its own series rather than pooling with neighboring municipalities. Whether this was civic pride or simple logistics is unrecorded — but the result is a note tied entirely to one small town's administrative moment.