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50 Heller Waidhofen an der Ybbs
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Waidhofen an der Ybbs |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 h h Notgeld der Stadtgemeinde Waidhofen a.d. Ybbs über Fünfzig Heller die Gemeinde Waidhofen a.d. Ybbs haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen Waidhofen a.d. Ybbs am 1 Feber 1920 Der Bürgermeister Stellv.: Der Bürgermeister: Der Stadtrat: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in blackletter typeface on plain unadorned paper within a simple dotted rectangular border, presenting the full legal text of the Notgeld issue. The heading 'Notgeld der Stadtgemeinde Waidhofen an der Ybbs über fünfzig Heller.' is set in larger display type, followed by four paragraphs of explanatory and legal text, with the printer's imprint 'Druckerei Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs, Ges. m. b. H.' set in small type along the lower margin. |
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This is an Austrian Notgeld issue — emergency small-change scrip printed locally to address the acute coin shortage that persisted well into the early 1920s, long after the war ended. The municipality printed it in-house through the town's own press rather than contracting a specialist printer, which was unusual even by Notgeld standards and shows up in the comparatively plain execution.
Waidhofen an der Ybbs sits in Lower Austria's iron-working corridor, and the town had issued Notgeld in earlier denominations during 1919 as well. The JPR1127a designation suggests this 50 Heller is among the earlier-documented variants of the series.