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20 Heller Wieselburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Wieselburg an der Erlauf |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | KINO Wieselburg a/d Erlauf GUTSCHEIN 20 HELLER GILTIG BIS 1. JÄNNER 1921. R. H. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain beige-tan paper stock with a faint rectangular blind-border impression visible near the edges, the surface showing the natural texture and fibres of the coarse wartime paper. |
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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.