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20 Heller Wieselburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Wieselburg an der Erlauf |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two distinct panels printed in blue on a pale olive-green ground. The left vignette panel, enclosed within a dotted border, carries an allegorical figure in an Art Nouveau style — a female form atop a rocky summit raising a torch aloft against radiating sunrays, with the word KINO above and the cursive inscription Wieselburg a/d Erlauf beneath, accompanied by a monogram. The right panel bears a light guilloche underprint of scrollwork and presents the denomination text GUTSCHEIN / 20 HELLER in bold letterpress, with the validity legend GILTIG BIS 1. JÄNNER 1921. and the issuing authority initials R. H. flanked by decorative scroll ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | KINO Wieselburg a/d Erlauf GUTSCHEIN 20 HELLER GILTIG BIS 1. JÄNNER 1921. R. H. |
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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 coin shortage that gripped Austria in the final years of the First World War and its immediate aftermath. The 20 Heller denomination was among the most practical for small transactions — the sort of change that vanished from daily commerce first when metal was needed for the war effort.
Municipal Notgeld of this type was authorized under emergency provisions and redeemable locally. Most were printed in short runs by regional printers with limited equipment, which accounts for the considerable variation in paper quality found across surviving examples from the same issue.