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20 Heller Wippenham
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wippenham (Municipality of Wippenham) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Olive and gold tones on cream paper with an intricate guilloché border and scrollwork corner ornaments. A panoramic vignette of the town of Wippenham runs across the upper portion of the note. The denomination 'Heller' appears in dark red at the four corners in bold Gothic script, with the numeral '20' in circular cartouches at left and right; the central text block carries the authorising resolution text, redemption terms, forgery warning, and two facsimile signatures. |
| Reverse lettering | Heller 20 Die Gemeinde Wippenham gibt auf Grund des Gemeindeausschußbeschlusses vom 6. Juni 1920 Gutscheine im Werte von Zwanzig Heller aus und löst dieselben bis einschließlich 30. Sept. 1920 in gesetzl. Bargeld ein. Nachahmung dieses Scheines verboten. Frz. Reisegger, V.-B. C. Zeilinger, Bg. Wippenham |
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Wippenham is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar rural communities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. These hyperlocal issues were often produced in tiny quantities by local printers with whatever materials were on hand, which is precisely why so many are now scarcer than the more celebrated city issues from Vienna or Linz.
The two signatures represent municipal officials rather than banking authorities — Wippenham had no bank to speak of.