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20 Heller Suceava
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Suczawa (City of Suceava) |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper, this bilingual emergency municipal note carries all text in letterpress within a dashed rectangular border. The denomination numeral '20' is set in large bold type at centre, flanked by the words 'HELLER' and 'BANI', with 'ZWANZIG HELLER' and its Romanian equivalent 'Douăzeci bani' inscribed below. The issuing authority appears in German at the top ('Stadtgemeinde Suczawa') and in Romanian at the foot ('Primăria orașului Suceava'), with a handwritten serial number above the central value; two cancellation punch holes are present. |
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| Reverse description | The plain pink reverse bears no printed design, displaying only an embossed or blind-stamped circular official seal of the municipality, faintly visible at centre, along with two cancellation punch holes aligned with those on the obverse. |
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Suceava — known in German as Suczawa — was under Austro-Hungarian military administration when this note was issued in 1916, having been taken from Romania during the opening phase of the Bukovina campaign. Municipal emergency issues of this type filled a acute small-change vacuum caused by wartime hoarding of metal coinage throughout the occupied eastern territories. The city's own pre-war municipal infrastructure was largely intact, which is why civilian administrative bodies rather than purely military authorities handled local Heller issuance.
Paper notgeld from Romanian-inhabited Bukovinian towns in this period is genuinely scarce — most saw heavy use and were redeemed or simply discarded once the front shifted again in late 1916.