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20 Heller Wieselburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Wieselburg a.d. Erlauf |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark violet on cream paper, the obverse carries a line-art vignette of the Wieselburg townscape above the Erlauf river, with a Gothic church steeple rising among rooftops and foliage beneath a billowing sky, a lattice iron bridge visible at the lower right. The denomination '20' is placed in bold type at the upper left and 'HELLER' at the upper right within the border frame. Below the vignette, a three-line inscription in Gothic lettering reads 'GUTSCHEIN / DER MARKTGEMEINDE / WIESELBURG / A/D ERLAUF'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in dark violet on cream paper, is centred on an ornate cartouche enclosing the heraldic shield of Wieselburg, flanked by baroque scrollwork and torch motifs. Diagonal ribbon banners carry the redemption text in Gothic script, with facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister on separate scroll panels to the left and right. Validity and anti-counterfeiting notices appear in the lower corners. |
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Wieselburg an der Erlauf is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from around 1916 onward. These local emergency issues filled the gap left by hoarded metal coinage, circulating within the issuing community and redeemable — in theory — against proper currency. The Jaksc/Pick reference places this firmly within the vast Lower Austrian Notgeld series, a category that runs to thousands of catalogue entries.
The JPR1231c suffix indicates a variant within the Wieselburg issue, suggesting at least two or three distinct printings or color variants exist for this denomination.