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20 Heller Wieselburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Wieselburg a.d. Erlauf |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR1231b-20 |
| Obverse description | Printed in violet-purple on blue-grey paper, the obverse is framed by a plain rectangular border. A panoramic vignette of the town of Wieselburg a.d. Erlauf occupies the centre, with the church steeple rising above rooftops and trees against a billowing cloudscape, and a lattice iron bridge visible at lower right. The denomination numeral '20' appears in bold at upper left and the legend 'HELLER' at upper right, while a three-line issuer inscription runs across the lower portion of the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 HELLER GUTSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE WIESELBURG A.D. ERLAUF |
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Wieselburg an der Erlauf is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria from 1916 onward. The Marktgemeinde — the market commune, a specific administrative designation below a full Stadtgemeinde — had legal standing to issue these emergency fractions, though the notes carried no backing beyond local goodwill and the expectation of eventual redemption.
The JPR1231b suffix indicates a variant within the Wieselburg series, distinguished from the "a" type by a minor printing or color difference documented in the Jaksch catalog. These distinctions matter to collectors far more than they ever did to the bakers and shopkeepers who used them.