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50 Heller Weinzierl am Walde
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weinzierl am Walde (Municipality of Weinzierl am Walde) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Die Gemeinde Weinzierl a. haftet für die Einlösung dieses Scheines mit dem ganzen Vermögen Weinzierl a. am 15.6.1920 der Gemeinde Weinzier a. Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebgmstr.: Der 1. Gemeinderat: |
| Reverse description | Predominantly white reverse with a pale orange decorative underprint of scrollwork and a faint central vignette motif. The upper portion carries a four-line German rhyming verse in Gothic script, followed in the centre by the bold Gothic legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Weinzierl am Walde' and the denomination 'über 50 Heller.' in large display type. Below, validity and redemption conditions are stated in two further lines of Gothic text. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type emerged from a genuine small-change crisis following World War One, when coin metal was scarce and central authority too distant to serve rural communities reliably. Hundreds of Austrian municipalities printed their own emergency heller notes in 1920, most in tiny quantities for purely local use — shopkeepers and innkeepers were often the primary circulators.
Weinzierl am Walde is a small Lower Austrian village, and issues from settlements this size were typically printed in runs of a few hundred to a couple thousand pieces, with redemption periods that sometimes expired before residents even bothered to return them.