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50 Heller Unter-Weißenbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Vorstehung Unterweissenbach (Municipality of Unter-Weißenbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Printed uniformly in blue on cream paper within a decorative border of interlaced guilloche patterns. To the left, an oval cartouche bears the inscription 'Gemeinde-Vorstehung / UNTERWEISSENBACH / Oberdösterreich', while the large numeral '50' occupies the centre within a ruled panel; a further oval to the right contains the redemption clause in Gothic script. The lower portion carries a multi-line legal text in Gothic script recording the municipal council resolution of 12 May 1920 authorising the issue of vouchers totalling 40,000 Kronen, closing with the dateline 'Unterweissenbach, im Mai 1920' and the statutory warning 'Nachahmung wird gestz. bestraft.' |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Heller Gutschein Fünfzig Heller über Gemeinde-Vorstehung UNTERWEISSENBACH Oberdösterreich 50 Diese Scheine werden von der Gemeindekasse nach erfolgter Verlautbarung in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Gemeinde Unterweissenbach in Ob.Oesk. gibt auf Grund des Gemeindeausschußbeschlusses vom 12.V.1920 Gutscheine im Betrage von 40,000 Kr. aus und haftet für die richtige Einlösung dieser Scheine in gesetzlichem Bargelde mit einer eigenen Deckungsrücklage. Unterweissenbach, im Mai 1920. Nachahmung wird gestz. bestraft. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld from the immediate postwar period, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments scrambling to cover a chronic shortage of small coin. Unter-Weißenbach is a small market town in Upper Austria; its municipal authority issued these 50 Heller notes in 1920 under the same legal framework that produced thousands of similar local emergency issues across the former Austrian crownlands.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this squarely in the documented notgeld corpus, but the print runs for individual village issues were often tiny and unrecorded. Surviving quantities are largely a matter of chance rather than design.