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50 Heller St. Thomas bei Waizenkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Thomas bei Waizenkirchen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Thomas bei Waizenkirchen, O.-Ö. über fünfzig 50 Heller. Die Gemeinde löst diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 1. bis 15. September 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Die Nachahmung wird gerichtlich verfolgt. Der Bürgermeister: Doplmatr. Lanz, Eferding |
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| Signature(s) | Doplmatr (Bürgermeister) |
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Sankt Thomas bei Waizenkirchen is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller Notgeld was issued in 1920 as the postwar coinage shortage continued to strangle small transactions across the former Habsburg territories. The printer, Lanz of Eferding, was a local firm serving the immediate region — nothing like the sophisticated Viennese workshops handling urban municipal issues. That provincial origin shows in the note's execution.
Signed by the Bürgermeister Doplmatr, whose authorization gave the paper whatever legal weight it carried locally. Redemption obligations for Austrian Notgeld of this period were notoriously uneven — smaller communes sometimes failed to honor them at all.