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50 Heller Weilbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weilbach (Municipality of Weilbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld printed in brown and black letterpress, with a symmetrical ornamental border composed of repeated Art Nouveau-style cartouches and guilloche panels framing the central text block. The large numeral '50' appears at the top centre in bold brown type, flanked by the denomination legend 'HELLER' to each side, with the issuer title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Weilbach' in bold blackletter script below. An oval underprint cartouche at the foot bears the town name 'WEILBACH', with validity, redemption, and anti-counterfeiting clauses printed in roman type above the facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse with no ornamental border or underprint, bearing only a centred text block in blackletter and roman type. The denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' is set in large blackletter at the top, followed by the issuer title in bold, and a justification clause in smaller roman type explaining that the vouchers were issued by resolution of the municipal council on 2 May 1920 to alleviate the prevailing shortage of coin. |
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Weilbach is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued its own emergency small change during the Heller shortage that plagued Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg economy left the new Austrian republic unable to supply adequate coinage, prompting a wave of locally-printed Notgeld from 1919 through 1921. Most of these municipal issues were redeemed and pulped within a year or two of issue, which gives surviving examples more interest to collectors than their face value ever suggested.
The two signatories — A. Schachinger and Franz Hörl — would have been local officials, likely the Bürgermeister and a municipal treasurer or council member.