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20 Heller Walding
| Issuer | Gemeinde Walding (Municipality of Walding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain paper within a fine chain-link decorative border, bearing a four-line rhyming verse in Gothic script at the top. The central text, set in elaborate blackletter typeface, reads 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Walding' followed by a statement authorizing the Notgeld issue as resolved at the municipal committee session of 18 April 1920, valid until 31 December 1920. Three signature lines at the foot identify the deputy mayor (Der Bürgermeister-Stellv.), the municipal councillor (Der Gemeinderat), and the mayor (Der Bürgermeister), each with a manuscript facsimile signature. |
| Reverse lettering | Österreich in seiner Not, Hat nicht das Nötigste zum Essen, Im Überfluss, ach leider Gott, Nur viele Notgeldpressen. Gutschein der Gemeinde Walding. Die Ausgabe von Notgeld wurde in der Gemeinde-Ausschußsitzung vom 18 April 1920 beschlossen, mit der Gültigkeitsdauer bis 31. Dezember 1920. Der Bürgermeister-Stellv.: Parsch Der Gemeinderat: Gucnberger Der Bürgermeister: Josef Rath |
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Walding is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, northwest of Linz, and this 20 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Jos. Waltl was a Linz commercial printer with no particular numismatic pedigree, and the designer Rögner is otherwise obscure, likely a local commercial artist rather than a specialist in currency work.
Three signatories — Parsch, Gucnberger, and Josef Rath — suggest the commune required multiple officials to authorize even small-denomination emergency scrip.