Catalog
10 Heller Wernstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wernstein am Inn (Municipality of Wernstein) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE WERNSTEIN GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE WERNSTEIN a/INN ZEHN HELLER Die Gemeinde Wernstein/Inn haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld bis einschließlich 31. Dezember 1920 beim Gemeindeamte einzulösen DIE GEMEINDE-VERTRETUNG: DIE NACHAHMUNG DIESES SCHEINES WIRD GESETZL. BESTRAFT |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 HELLER JOHANNES FELSEN IM INN ZEHN HELLER GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE WERNSTEIN a/INN |
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Wernstein am Inn is a small Upper Austrian municipality on the German border, and this Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria during the First World War. The central government's withdrawal of metal coinage for war production left thousands of municipalities scrambling to print their own fractional emergency money — Notgeld — to keep local commerce moving at all. Feichtingers Erben was a Linz printing house that filled a significant share of that demand across Upper Austria.
The "b" suffix in the Jaksch reference indicates a variant within the series, likely a color or paper distinction from the "a" issue.