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50 Heller Braunau
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Braunau am Inn |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue and tan on plain paper, the obverse carries the denomination numeral '50' within an oval cartouche at the top centre, flanked by the inscription 'HELLER' on each side. Vertical side panels bear the legends 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER' on the left and 'BRAUNAU AM INN' on the right. The central field contains a lobed decorative frame enclosing redemption text, the municipal authority inscription 'STADTGEM. BRAUNAU / DER BÜRGERM.', a facsimile signature, and the arms of Braunau am Inn; the denomination '50 HELLER 50' is repeated along the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in the same blue and tan colour scheme, repeats the side-panel legends 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER' and 'BRAUNAU AM INN' and the oval '50 / HELLER' cartouche at the top. The central lobed vignette contains a finely engraved panoramic view of Braunau am Inn with its tall church tower and townscape reflected in the River Inn. The designer's name 'S. V. WEECH' appears in small lettering below the lower border rule, and the denomination '50 HELLER 50' is inscribed along the bottom margin. |
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Braunau am Inn sits on the Austrian side of the Inn River, directly opposite the Bavarian town of Simbach, and this Heller note is a product of the acute small-change famine that struck Austrian municipalities almost immediately after the outbreak of war in 1914. The imperial coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight — hoarded, melted, or simply never minted in sufficient quantity for wartime demand — forcing hundreds of Stadtgemeinden to print their own emergency fractional notes, the so-called Notgeld.
The S. v. Weech designer credit is relatively uncommon in the Austrian municipal Notgeld corpus and suggests local artistic involvement rather than a generic commercial printer's stock layout.