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50 Heller Waizenkirchen

Issuer Gemeinde Waizenkirchen (Municipality of Waizenkirchen)
Year 1920
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Reference(s) Jaksc/Pick#JPR1128b-50
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Obverse lettering 50 HELLER 50
Gemeinde
Waizenkirchen
1920
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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.

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