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10 Heller St. Willibald
| Issuer | Gemeindevorstehung St. Willibald (Municipality of Sankt Willibald, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on buff paper, the left half carries a vignette of the Galgenwiese (gallows meadow) with a timber gallows structure amid trees, above a lengthy Gothic-script text passage describing the historical site. The right half bears a central oval vignette of a rural road winding through a forested landscape with a farmstead, flanked by the denomination numeral '10' at upper left and upper right, with the issuer name 'St. Willibald o.ö.' in large Gothic lettering along the lower edge. Validity date '31. Dezember 1920', place and date of issue, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister Josef Lentholzer appear to the right, with a small decorative device and the designer's name 'H. Doblmaier' at lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeindevorstehing St. Willibald, Oberösterreich, gibt auf Grund des Gemeindeausschuß-Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 9. Mai 1920 Notgeld aus und haftet für die Einlösung mit ihrem ganzen Aktivvermögen. Die Gutscheine werden in der Zeit vom 1. bis einschließlich 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Sankt Willibald is a small village in the Innviertel district of Upper Austria, and this note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. Hyperinflationary pressure on the central money supply left small communities without adequate small change, forcing local authorities to print their own. The Gemeindevorstehung — the municipal council, not a bank — issued this under the direct signature of Bürgermeister Josef Lentholzer, giving it a distinctly civic rather than financial character.
H. Doblmaier's design credit is unusual for a village issue of this scale; most comparable rural Notgeld relied on anonymous local printing.