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20 Heller Waxenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waxenberg (Municipality of Waxenberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse lettering | ANNO 1500 |
| Signature(s) | Kaspar Haider |
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Waxenberg is a small settlement in Upper Austria, its name tied to the medieval Burg Waxenberg whose ruins still overlook the Mühlviertel. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities scrambling after the post-WWI collapse of the Habsburg monetary system, the Gemeinde issued its own Notgeld in 1920 to address the acute shortage of small-denomination coinage — the Heller had effectively vanished from circulation as metal was hoarded and imperial supply chains collapsed.
Kaspar Haider's signature as issuing authority marks this as a purely local instrument, redeemable only within the commune's jurisdiction. The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1144I-20 places it firmly in the Austrian municipal Notgeld series, a category that often drew on local heraldic or landscape imagery to distinguish one parish's scrip from the next.