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10 Heller Waizenkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waizenkirchen (Municipality of Waizenkirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with a central vignette of the Weidenholz estate as it appeared in 1626, rendered in fine woodcut style with detailed architectural and landscape elements. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large bold type at lower left and lower right, flanked by the word 'Heller', with ornamental borders incorporating tools, weapons, and decorative motifs along all four edges. The legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Waizenkirchen' is inscribed in Gothic script across the lower centre, with the caption 'WEIDENHOLZ 1626' below the vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | Der Bauernkrieg, daß Gott erbarm, Verbrannt den Ort und macht' ihn arm; Doch erst der Weltkrieg mit seinen Schrecken Der lehrte uns das Kleingeld strecken. Die Gemeinde Waizenkirchen löst diesen Schein bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Waizenkirchen, am 21. April 1920 Der Bürgermeister: |
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Waizenkirchen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities in the early 1920s it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of low-denomination coins that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The central authorities could not produce enough coinage fast enough, so municipalities filled the gap themselves, printing scrip redeemable locally.
The Jaksch reference places this firmly in the Austrian municipal Notgeld corpus. These issues were typically printed in very small runs by local printers, and redemption was often incomplete — many notes were simply pocketed as curiosities rather than returned, which ironically preserved them.