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20 Heller Waidendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waidendorf (Municipality of Waidendorf) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller 20 Die Gemeinde Waidendorf haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Bürgermeister: Vizebürgermeister: |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Heller 20 Heller Gemeinde Waidendorf Nied.-Österr. Druck C. Rueiser, Amstetten |
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Waidendorf is a small village in Lower Austria, and this Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria during the First World War. With silver and copper coins disappearing from circulation almost immediately after August 1914 — hoarded or melted — municipalities across the empire were authorized to issue their own emergency Kleingeld. Thousands of these Notgeld pieces were printed by local job printers with no particular numismatic ambition.
C. Rueiser of Amstetten was a commercial printer, not a specialist currency house. The practical limitations of that arrangement show in the series.