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50 Heller Unterweitersdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Unterweitersdorf (Municipality of Unterweitersdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in brown and green renders a rural landscape with a stone arched bridge in the foreground and a timber-framed farmhouse set against a wooded hillside, identified by the caption below as the former horse-drawn railway station of the Linz–Budweis line at Unterweitersdorf. The denomination '50 Heller' appears in cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the title 'Fünfzig Heller.' in a scrolled banner at the top centre. Ornamental foliate scrollwork borders the composition on all sides, and the artist's signature 'L. Haase' is visible at the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Unterweitersdorf bei Gallneukirchen in Oberösterreich gibt laut Gemeindesbeschluß vom 15. Mai 1920 zur Abhilfe des Kleingeldmangels Gutscheine zu 10, 20 und 50 Heller aus. Diese Gutscheine sind unverzinslich und werden vier Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargelde beim Gemeindeamte Unterweitersdorf eingelöst. Unterweitersdorf, 15. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister und dessen Stellvertreter: Nachmachung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Unterweitersdorf is a small parish in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced between 1919 and 1921 when acute coin shortages left rural municipalities printing their own emergency fractional currency. The Haase design credit is unusual — most village-level Notgeld was jobbed out anonymously to local printers or regional commercial houses, and named designers at this scale are worth noting even if the attribution cannot always be verified against the physical print.
The JPR1102 series from Unterweitersdorf is not among the rarer Upper Austrian issues, but completists pursuing the full Jaksch-Pick Notgeld census will need it.