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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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| In circulation to | 15 September 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark ink on pale cream paper with a green guilloche dot-pattern border surrounding the entire note. A narrow left panel contains a stylised Art Nouveau vertical ornament with scrollwork and a large bold numeral '50'. The main right field carries the issuing authority and denomination in Gothic (Fraktur) script, followed by a redemption clause and an anti-counterfeiting warning, with the Bürgermeister's facsimile signature 'Doplmatr' at the foot. The printer's imprint 'Lanz, Eferding' appears below the central frame. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for a light show-through of the obverse text visible through the thin paper stock, with a plain ruled rectangular frame. A faint stamp impression reading '50' appears at the lower right. The overall surface is plain cream, consistent with the simple emergency-issue character of this Notgeld. |
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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.