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20 Heller Werfen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Werfen (Market Town of Werfen) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR1173b-20 |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Werfen Dieser Gutschein über Zwanzig Heller wird bis 31 December 1920 von der Marktgemeinde Werfen in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst Gemeinderat Bürgermeister |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a woodcut-style vignette filling the entire note face within a decorative ruled border with ornamental corner pieces. The central scene renders a street view of Werfen with a baroque church tower rising before steep mountain cliffs executed in dense crosshatch lines, with figures and buildings lining the foreground street. |
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Werfen is a small market town in the Salzburg region of Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — during the coin shortages that gripped Austria between roughly 1920 and 1922. The Heller denomination places this firmly in that window, just before the catastrophic inflation that rendered such fractional values meaningless.
The JPR reference indicates this is the 'b' variety, meaning at least two distinct versions of the 20 Heller were produced — likely differing in color, serial numbering, or paper stock rather than issuing authority or denomination text.