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50 Heller Waizenkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waizenkirchen (Municipality of Waizenkirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown woodcut-style vignette of the Waizenkirchen town square, with a panoramic view of the market place showing period townhouses, a church tower at centre, and figures in the foreground; the date '1746' appears at upper left within the composition. The denomination '50' is set in large numerals at upper left and upper right, with 'HELLER' inscribed between them along the top border. A scrollwork cartouche at lower centre carries the text 'Gemeinde Waizenkirchen', below which the designer's name and the year '1920' appear in small print, all enclosed within a decorative floral and geometric border. |
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| Reverse lettering | Der Bauernkrieg, daß Gott erbarm, Verbrannt den Ort und macht ihn arm; Doch erst der Weltkrieg mit seinen Schrecken Der lehrte uns das Kleingeld strecken. Die Gemeinde Waizenkirchen löst diesen Schein bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Waizenkirchen, am 21. April 1920 Im Bürgermeisteramte: Zweite Auflage |
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Austrian municipal notgeld from 1920 occupies a peculiar niche in collecting: issued under the legal framework that permitted communes to produce emergency fractional currency after the wartime collapse of small-coin availability, these notes were officially tolerated but never formally authorized by the central bank. Waizenkirchen, a small market town in Upper Austria, issued its series like hundreds of other municipalities scrambling to keep local commerce functional as the old Habsburg monetary system disintegrated.
The Jaksc/Pick suffix "b" distinguishes a variant within the 50 Heller type — likely a printing or paper difference from the "a" issue, though documentation at this granular level is sparse for minor Upper Austrian communes.