20 Heller Wieselburg

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.