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20 Heller Wimsbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wimsbach (Municipality of Wimsbach) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 Heller 20 Notgeld der Gemeinde Wimsbach Ob. Öst. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über 20 h Die Gemeinde Wimsbach haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen und hat hiefür eine Deckungsanlage bestellt. — Die Einlösung wird öffentlich bekanntgegeben. Georg Stürzlinger Bürgermeister Adolf Raab 1. Vizebürgermeister Johann Schönleitner 2. Vizebürgermeister Druck von J. Stampfl u. Co., Braunau. |
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Wimsbach is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to locally printed Notgeld during the coin shortage that gripped Austria from around 1916 onward. Three signatories — the Bürgermeister and both deputy mayors — were required to authenticate the issue, a procedural formality that hints at just how seriously even minor communes took the legal exposure of issuing their own currency. Printed by J. Stampfl u. Co. in nearby Braunau am Inn, the note stayed within the region it was meant to serve.
Daringer's design credit is unusually specific for a village emergency note of this type.