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50 Heller Waldburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waldburg (Municipality of Waldburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Fünfzig Heller Für die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines in gesetzlichem Bargeld innerhalb der Frist vom 1. Juli 1920 bis 31. Dec. 1920 haftet die Gemeinde Waldburg 1. Juli 1920 Der Bürgermeister |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a central vignette of a rural farmhouse scene with figures in traditional Austrian dress gathered before a large timber-framed building set against a mountain backdrop, with a banner above reading 'Auf zur Arbeit'. The issuer's name 'Gemeinde Waldburg' is inscribed in large Gothic lettering across the top, and the denomination '50' appears in wreath cartouches at lower left and right. Flanking text panels state the note's purpose as small-change relief and the validity date, with a printed notice that counterfeiting is punishable by law; the printer's imprint 'Hasel. Linz' appears at upper right. |
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Waldburg is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed World War One. The 50 Heller denomination was the workhorse of Austrian local Notgeld, practical enough for small transactions at a time when metal coinage had essentially vanished from everyday commerce.
Printed in Linz, this note belongs to the 1920 wave of Austrian municipal issues, by which point the Notgeld phenomenon had become almost systematic — local councils ordering small runs from regional printers, each valid only within the issuing commune.