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10 Heller Waidendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waidendorf (Municipality of Waidendorf) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Green and brown letterpress note enclosed within a decorative foliate border. A large interlocking double-oval green guilloche underprint dominates the centre, against which the denomination numeral '10' is set in bold Gothic blackletter. Two oval vignettes, printed in brown, are positioned at left and right: the left vignette presents a view of a church with a tall steeple along a tree-lined road, the right shows a local commercial building. The inscription 'Gutschein Heller' appears above the denomination, with 'Gemeinde Waidendorf Nied.-Österr.' along the lower margin. The printer's imprint reads 'Druck C. Dueiser, Amstetten' at the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Heller 10 Heller Gemeinde Waidendorf Nied.-Österr. Druck C. Dueiser, Amstetten |
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Waidendorf is a small village in Lower Austria, and this note is a product of the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria during the First World War. Municipal authorities across the country — including parishes too small to appear on most maps — were authorized to issue their own emergency Kleingeld, filling the gap left by hoarded and melted coinage. The printer, C. Dueiser of Amstetten, handled a number of these local Notgeld commissions from surrounding communities in the region.
The hyper-local nature of these emissions means surviving documentation is thin. Waidendorf itself had no banking infrastructure of its own.