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50 Heller Sankt Peter am Wimberg 1920
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Peter am Wimberg (Municipality of Sankt Peter am Wimberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 HELLER St. Peter am Wimberg Diese Gutscheine werden von der Gemeinde bis 30. Juni 1921 in Zahlung genommen und vom 1. bis 30. Juni 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst bis; die Nachahmung dieses Gutscheins wird gesetzl. bestraft Das Geld mit dö Frauenkopf, Dos han ma scho z'lang, Drum macht cam Sankt Peter dans selbn mit'n Hahn. Gutschein |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Peter am Wimberg O.Ö. |
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Sankt Peter am Wimberg is a small rural commune in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel region, and like hundreds of similarly modest municipalities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The federal government was simply unable to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation, leaving local authorities to fill the gap with self-issued scrip valid only within their own jurisdictions.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0926-50 places this firmly within the catalogued Austrian municipal Notgeld series, though surviving examples from villages of this size are genuinely uncommon — print runs were small, redemption periods short, and most notes were turned in and destroyed once the crisis passed.