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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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| Obverse description | Violet-purple note with a dense guilloche underprint covering the entire surface. The denomination numeral '20' appears in each of the four corners within ornamental roundels. Central text panel in Gothic blackletter script carries the issuer name and denomination value, flanked by a decorative border. Three manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear in the lower portion, dated Wien, 13 Februar 1920. |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde Wien über Zwanzig Heller DIE GEMEINDE WIEN HAFTET FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN VERMÖGEN. WIEN, AM 13 FEBRUAR 1920 DER BÜRGERMEISTER DER VIZEBÜRGERMEISTER DER STADTRAT |
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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.