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20 Heller Wien
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Wien (City of Vienna) |
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| Year | 1919-1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on plain white paper with a simple rectangular border frame. The upper portion bears the issuer designation and denomination in both Gothic and roman type, followed by a multi-line text block in German explaining the legal terms of issue, redemption period, and penal clause against counterfeiting. No pictorial vignette is present; the design is entirely typographic. |
| Reverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Wien über 20 Heller Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Wien für weitere 3 Millionen Kronen Kassenscheine aus. Diese Kassenscheine lauten auf 20 Heller, sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde Wien bis 30. Juni 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 1. bis 30. Juni 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieses Kassenscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Vienna's postwar municipal emergency money — Notgeld — emerged from a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage in circulation. By 1919, the old Austro-Hungarian coins had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished, and the new Austrian state was in no position to mint replacements fast enough. Stadtgemeinde Wien stepped in as one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities doing the same thing, issuing fractional paper to keep daily commerce functional.
The JPR1183d designation places this within a documented series variant. Wien's Notgeld issues were produced locally and redeemable only within city jurisdiction — a built-in expiration on their usefulness that most holders understood perfectly well.