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| Uitgever | Marktgemeinde Windischgarsten (Market Town of Windischgarsten) |
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| Jaar | 1920 |
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| Waarde | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Green and brown Notgeld note with a textured border underprint. Central vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Windischgarsten set against an Alpine mountain backdrop in green and dark ink. Denomination numeral '50' appears in bold at left and right flanking the title panel, which bears the validity date in Gothic script. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Green guilloche underprint with a double-ruled frame and ornamental dot borders. Two circular rosette medallions at left and right bear the denomination '50'. A central coat of arms vignette is set above the large Gothic denomination inscription; below, a three-line redemption guarantee text and the issuing authority legend appear, with the Bürgermeister's signature at lower right and year '1920' in the centre. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Windischgarsten is a small alpine market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the postwar period when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The Austrian state could not keep up with coin production amid the economic chaos following defeat and the dissolution of the Habsburg empire, leaving local authorities to fill the gap with their own printed scrip.
This 50 Heller note falls within the broadly collected 1920 Austrian Notgeld series catalogued by Jaksch. Redemption was theoretically guaranteed by the issuing municipality, though in practice many of these local issues were never redeemed at all — collectors had begun acquiring them as novelties almost immediately, and issuers occasionally printed more than circulation required precisely because unclaimed notes cost nothing to honor.