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50 Heller Waidendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waidendorf (Municipality of Waidendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Blue and tan bicolour note with two circular vignettes flanking the central denomination numeral '50': the left vignette shows a view of a church with an onion dome along a tree-lined road, signed 'R. Franz' at lower left, while the right vignette depicts a two-storey commercial building with a sign reading 'Josef Schmid'. A stylised large '50' guilloche underprint spans the centre field, and a decorative foliate border frames the entire note. The imprint 'Druck C. Rueiser, Amstetten' appears in the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Heller 50 Heller Gemeinde Waidendorf Nied.-Österr. Druck C. Rueiser, Amstetten |
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Waidendorf is a small village in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War left the national currency in chaos and coin in short supply. Thousands of communes issued their own emergency pfennig and heller denominations between 1919 and 1921, most in tiny print runs managed by whatever local printer was available. Here, that was C. Rueiser of Amstetten, a market town roughly 20 kilometers away — close enough for the municipality to commission the work without difficulty.