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20 Heller Wernstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wernstein am Inn (Municipality of Wernstein am Inn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and black Notgeld voucher on light paper with an Art Nouveau-inspired border. The denomination '20 HELLER' appears in large stylised numerals on both left and right flanking panels, each enclosed within ornate oval vignettes with decorative scroll work. The central field carries the redemption text in German Gothic script, followed by three manuscript facsimile signatures above the imprint 'JOS. FEICHTINGERS ERBEN, LINZ' at the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE WERNSTEIN a/INN ZWANZIG HELLER 20 HELLER Die Gemeinde Wernstein a/Inn haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld bis einschließlich 31. Dezember 1920 beim Gemeindeamte einzulösen. DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES SCHEINES WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT! DIE GEMEINDE VERTRETUNG: JOS. FEICHTINGERS ERBEN, LINZ |
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Wernstein am Inn is a village on the Austrian bank of the Inn River, directly across from Bavaria — a border position that gave local emergency currency an almost immediate cross-border relevance during the Notgeld period. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities, Wernstein issued its own small-denomination paper money in 1920 to address the acute coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system and the disruptions of postwar currency reform.
Jos. Feichtingers Erben was a well-established Linz printing house responsible for a significant number of Upper Austrian Notgeld issues from this period. The "b" suffix in the Jaksch reference indicates a variant within the 20 Heller denomination — likely a color or paper distinction rather than a date change.