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180 Heller Wallsee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wallsee an der Donau (Municipality of Wallsee on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset notgeld note printed in dark brown on cream paper, enclosed within a decorative border of interlocking scrollwork and geometric chain motifs. The issuer name 'Wallsee a.D.' is set in large blackletter script at centre, below the heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde', with the denomination '180' in bold numerals flanking a central text block that states the municipality's liability and the validity date of 31 December 1920. Three manuscript signatures appear at the foot, attributed to the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Polychrome pictorial vignette in the style of an Austro-Hungarian topographical postcard print, divided into two panels within a ruled border. The left panel, framed by an ornate oval cartouche, presents a colour view of Schloss Wallsee on the Danube with the caption 'Schloss des Franz Habsburg-Lothringen', while the right and larger panel offers a panoramic landscape view of Wallsee s/Donau with its church towers and the Danube valley, with mountains visible in the distance. The municipal coat of arms appears in the upper right corner, and the printer's imprint 'Druck von J. Kielar, Amstetten' is set at the foot centre. |
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Wallsee-Sindelburg is a small commune on the Danube in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued its own Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The 180 Heller denomination is notably high for a local emergency issue — most Austrian municipal Notgeld clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller — suggesting this value was introduced to handle transactions the smaller denominations couldn't efficiently cover by 1920.
J. Kielar of Amstetten was a regional printer serving several Lower Austrian communes in this period, not one of the major Viennese or German specialty houses.