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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 description | The obverse is printed in grey-violet and presents a central vignette of the village of Weinzierl am Walde, with a church steeple and rooftops rendered in a fine pen-and-ink style within a rectangular frame flanked by draped curtain motifs. The denomination '50' appears in circular cartouches at upper left and right, with the word 'Gutschein' in ornate Gothic script across the top. Below the vignette, a text panel carries the municipality's liability declaration dated 13.6.1920, flanked by two oval medallions containing folk-art figures of a fruit basket and a child, with the issuer name 'Weinzierl' set in bold Gothic lettering at the base; three handwritten signatures appear at the foot of the note beneath the titles 'Der Bürgermeister', 'Der Vizebgmte.' and 'Der 1. Gemeinderat'. |
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| Protection description | Circular municipality official stamp impressed on the reverse at right |
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Weinzierl am Walde is a village in Lower Austria with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred souls in 1920 — precisely the kind of community that found itself forced into emergency currency production when the postwar coin shortage became acute. Austria's central authorities could not supply small change fast enough, so thousands of municipalities printed their own Notgeld, each responsible for its own redemption.
The official stamp is the only thing separating this from unauthorized scrip. That stamp — applied by the local Gemeinde office — was the legal authentication mechanism, and notes lacking a clear impression were sometimes refused even within the issuing village.