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10 Heller Waldkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waldkirchen am Wesen (Municipality of Waldkirchen am Wesen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue-violet on cream paper, the reverse carries a bold rectangular cartouche at the top bearing the title 'Donautal-Notgeld des oberen Donaugaues' in gothic Fraktur lettering. Below, a block of German text sets out the authorising resolution of 7 June 1920, stating that the Gemeinde Waldkirchen am Wesen issued vouchers totalling 30,000 Kronen, redeemable at the municipal treasury in legal tender between 1 and 31 December 1920, with the Bürgermeister's printed signature 'Anton Peham' centred below the text and the numeral '10' at the lower left and right. A dialect verse in Bavarian German runs along the left margin, and an anti-counterfeiting warning is printed at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Donautal-Notgeld des oberen Donaugaues. Die Gemeinde Waldkirchen am Wesen gibt laut Beschluß vom 7. Juni 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 30.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein vom 1. bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Waldkirchen am Wesen, am 7. Juni 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Anton Peham. 10 Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Koan Hella in da Gmoa, is deat a Badruzl! Da Burgamoasta brummt, roat za an B'schluß: Ohnö Hella kimm' ma nöt sei', Führ'n ma halt a 's Notgeld ei'. |
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Waldkirchen am Wesen is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria in 1920 as postwar coin shortages made small-denomination transactions genuinely difficult. Municipal bodies, down to the village level, were authorized to issue their own emergency scrip — hence thousands of distinct local issues flooding the market that year.
Anton Peham's signature as validating authority reflects how thinly stretched local governance was. These notes were typically produced in small print runs by regional printers and redeemed quickly once coin supply normalized, which is why intact examples survive more often than circulated ones.