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20 Heller Wieselburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Wieselburg a.d. Erlauf |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 HELLER GUTSCHEIN DER MARKTGEMEINDE WIESELBURG A.D. ERLAUF |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in the same violet-purple on blue-grey paper, is centred on an ornate cartouche enclosing the municipal coat of arms — a shield bearing a diagonal band — surmounted by elaborate acanthus scrollwork. Banderole ribbons arc across the upper field carrying the redemption text, while two flanking ribbon panels bear the facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister. 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 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.