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50 Heller Waxenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waxenberg (Municipality of Waxenberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | II. Auflage Fünfzig 50 Heller Die Gemeinde löst diesen Gutschein bis zwei Wochen nach öffentlich kundzumachenden Widerruf ein. — Nachahmung verboten. Der Bürgermeister: Schneider. Waxenberg, 20. Juni 1920. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue on cream paper and consists entirely of a single central vignette enclosed within a decoratively shaped cartouche border. The vignette presents a finely rendered view of the ruined tower and walls of Waxenberg Castle, with crumbling stonework, a round keep, and surrounding vegetation rendered in a detailed line-engraving style against a lightly sketched sky. |
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Waxenberg is a tiny settlement in Upper Austria, and its 1920 emergency note belongs to the vast Notgeld phenomenon that swept German-speaking Europe after World War I left small municipalities without adequate coinage for everyday transactions. The Austrian federal government's inability to supply small-denomination currency in sufficient quantity forced even the most obscure rural communities to print their own provisional scrip — legally tolerated, locally redeemable, and technically worthless beyond the issuing parish.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1144II places this squarely in the second series of Waxenberg issues, implying at least one prior emission.