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10 Heller Weissenkirchen bei Frankenmarkt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weissenkirchen bei Frankenmarkt (Municipality of Weissenkirchen bei Frankenmarkt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a letterpress-printed scenic vignette in dark red on plain paper, showing a rural view of the parish church of Weissenkirchen bei Frankenmarkt with its characteristic onion-domed tower, set against trees and an open road with a wayside figure at left. The composition is contained within a simple rectangular border, with a caption inscription running along the upper edge. |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Lenzenweger (Bürgermeister) |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type emerged from a genuine small-change crisis that persisted well after the Armistice — metal coinage had been systematically withdrawn during the war years and never reliably returned to rural circulation. Weissenkirchen bei Frankenmarkt, a small municipality in Upper Austria, issued these locally under mayoral authority as a practical stopgap rather than any formal monetary initiative. Bürgermeister Joh. Lenzenweger's signature gave the notes their legal standing within the community.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1157-10.1 places this within the broader 1920 Upper Austrian municipal series, by which point many comparable villages had already retired their issues. Late issuers like this one tend to surface in smaller quantities.