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10 Heller Weistrach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weistrach (Municipality of Weistrach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the obverse presents a panoramic vignette of the Weistrach townscape with a church steeple at centre-right, set against a hatched sky. To the left, a bearded peasant figure in traditional dress raises a large jug, evoking local cider-drinking culture. A decorative ribbon banner across the upper centre carries the issuer inscription in Gothic script, with the denomination '10 Heller' set in a cartouche at upper right framed by a beaded and foliate border. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Weistrach 10 Heller Die Gemeinde Weistrach haftet für die Verbindlichkeit bis 30. Dezember 1920. N.O. Bürgermeister / Vizebürgermeister Schloss Behrnagl Eligabeth Warte |
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Weistrach is a small parish municipality in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities it issued its own Notgeld during the postwar currency collapse — partly out of necessity, partly because local Notgeld had become a minor collector craze by 1920, generating real revenue for cash-strapped townships. F. Kielar was a regional printer in Amstetten with no particular distinction in the broader Notgeld canon, but the local commissioning of both printer and designer kept production costs minimal and turnaround fast.
Emerich Kratkl's involvement is the one detail worth noting — a locally sourced designer rather than a stock template, which was not universal for issues at this denomination level.