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50 Heller Waldhausen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Waldhausen (Market Town of Waldhausen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a detailed pen-and-ink style illustration of a courtyard with a baroque fountain in the foreground, an arcaded building, and a square tower to the left, rendered in warm brown tones on a cream ground. A dotted border frames the composition, with the issuer inscription in a cartouche at the top and vertical text running along both lateral margins. The denomination '50' appears in bold type in each lower corner, with two facsimile signatures and a redemption notice in Kurrent script along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Waldhausen Ober-Österreich über 50 Heller Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Marktgemeinde Waldhausen Gutscheine aus. Diese Gutscheine lauten auf 50 Heller, sind unverzinslich, werden bis 31. März 1921 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 15. März bis 31. März 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. CHWALA'S DRUCK, WIEN VII. ZIEGLERG. 61 |
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Waldhausen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy after 1918. The severe coin shortage — driven by wartime metal requisitioning and postwar monetary chaos — forced thousands of municipalities, down to the smallest market towns, to issue their own emergency small-change paper. Chwala's Druck in Vienna's 7th district was a commercial printer that handled a significant volume of these provincial commissions.
The JPR1131c suffix indicates this is one of multiple color or text variants within the Waldhausen series — collectors should confirm the specific variant against the Jaksch reference before cataloging.