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25 Heller Wolfern
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wolfern (Municipality of Wolfern) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red letterpress Notgeld printed on cream paper, divided into two panels by a vertical rule. The left panel contains an oval vignette with the large numeral '25' above a small 'HELLER' inscription. The right panel carries the issuer's name 'GEMEINDE WOLFERN' in bold Art Nouveau lettering above a stylised architectural or decorative vignette of three arched forms with scrollwork, with 'GUTSCHEIN' lettered across the lower register, all enclosed within a double-ruled rectangular border. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse printed in black letterpress with the edition designation 'II. Aufl.' (second issue) at upper right, followed by a three-line redemption notice and a counterfeiting warning, closing with the authority line 'Der Bürgermeister.' in bold type; no vignette or ornamental elements are present. |
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Wolfern is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued Heller notgeld during the First World War and its immediate aftermath when small-denomination coinage disappeared entirely from circulation. The Austro-Hungarian state's wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from everyday commerce, and local governments were left to print their own stopgap solutions.
The Gemeinde series from this region were typically printed in very small quantities and redeemed locally, which is why survival rates vary dramatically even between neighboring villages. Wolfern's issues are among the less-documented in the Upper Austrian corpus.