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50 Heller Wallsee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wallsee an der Donau (Municipality of Wallsee on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown and blue on a pale blue vertically lined underprint with a dashed decorative border frame. A central vignette in fine line engraving style renders Wallsee Castle set upon a wooded hillside above the Danube, with a tall church tower rising behind the main building. The denomination '50 Heller' appears in large numerals at upper left and upper right, while the issuer's name in bold Gothic blackletter script fills the lower half, above two manuscript facsimile signatures identifying the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Wallsee an der Donau is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy — municipalities across the former empire printing their own emergency small change when coins vanished from circulation entirely. The Amstetten printer F. Kletar handled several of these local commissions, and the designer credit to Steffi Reinelt is unusually specific for a village-level issue; most comparable notes went uncredited.
The watermark security feature on a hyperlocal 50 Heller piece suggests either civic pride or a printer with stock already on hand.