Catalog
10 Heller Windhag bei Waidhofen an der Ybbs
| Issuer | Gemeinde Windhag (Commune of Windhag) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted notgeld issued on plain paper with a floral vine underprint border framing the entire note. A central rectangular vignette presents a woodcut-style panoramic landscape of the Windhag village and surrounding rolling hills with vineyards, roads, and forested ridgelines beneath a clouded sky. The denomination '10 Heller' appears in circular medallion devices at left and right, with the issuer name 'Windhag' in large blackletter Gothic script across the top beneath the word 'Gutschein'. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Windhag 10 Heller |
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Windhag bei Waidhofen an der Ybbs was one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities that resorted to printing their own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — during and after the First World War, when coin metal was requisitioned and small denomination currency simply vanished from circulation. The commune turned to F. Kielar in nearby Amstetten, a local commercial printer rather than a specialist banknote firm, which accounts for the straightforward execution typical of rural Lower Austrian issues.
Three signatories authenticate this note, an unusually full complement for a village-level issue, suggesting the commune took the formality seriously. The JPR1244c suffix indicates a variant within the Windhag series.