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50 Heller Deutsch-Wagram
| Issuer | Gemeinde Deutsch-Wagram (Municipality of Deutsch-Wagram) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld (emergency money) issue in brown and blue on cream paper, with a dotted border framing the entire note. The upper left corner bears the municipal coat of arms of Deutsch-Wagram in blue and yellow, showing wheat sheaves and crossed implements. A central oval vignette presents a letterpress view of a local church or tower amid vegetation. The denomination '50 HELLER' appears in large numerals on both flanks, with three manuscript signatures below their respective title designations. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIE GEMEINDE DEUTSCH-WAGRAM HAFTET FÜR DIESES NOTGELD MIT IHREM GESAMTEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN VERMÖGEN. DIESE SCHEINE WERDEN BIS ZUM 31. DEZEMBER 1920 EINGELÖST DRUCK VON FRANZ SCHWENS, GÄNSERNDORF. |
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Deutsch-Wagram is a small market town northeast of Vienna, better known to historians for the 1809 Napoleonic battle than for its paper money. This note is a Notgeld issue — emergency small-change currency printed by hundreds of Austrian municipalities after the First World War, when metal coinage had largely vanished from circulation and the central monetary system was struggling to supply denominations below one Krone.
Franz Schwens was a local Gänserndorf printer, not a specialist banknote house, which is exactly the point: municipal authorities in Lower Austria were improvising with whoever had a press nearby.