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50 Heller Walding
| Issuer | Gemeinde Walding (Municipality of Walding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse lettering | Von Rottenegg durchs Rodltal Da wandern wir so gern Und über Hambergs Höhn grüßt überall Ans Walding schon von fern. Gutschein der Gemeinde Walding. Die Ausgabe von Notgeld wurde in der Gemeinde-Ausschußsitzung vom 18. April 1920 beschlossen mit der Gültigkeitsdauer bis 31. Dezember 1920. Der Bürgermeister-Stellv.: Pársche Der Gemeinderat: Nurnenberger Der Bürgermeister: Josef Rath |
| Signature(s) | Pársche (Deputy Mayor), Nurnenberger (Municipal Councillor), and Josef Rath (Mayor) |
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Walding is a small parish municipality in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld emergency — the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system that left rural Austrian communities printing their own scrip simply to make change. Thousands of municipalities did the same between 1919 and 1921, but most used commercial printing houses. The Hosner engraver credit here is worth noting: small-run municipal pieces with a named engraver rather than a printer imprint are less common in the Upper Austrian series.
Three signatories authenticated this issue — the mayor, deputy mayor, and a councillor — suggesting the municipality took the authorization seriously, or at minimum wanted the paper to look credible to a skeptical local population.