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50 Heller Weissenbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weissenbach an der Triesting |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red on plain cream paper. The entire reverse is occupied by a large diamond-shaped ornamental cartouche enclosing the issuing authority's declaration in Gothic blackletter script, giving the date of issue as 1 July 1920 and the redemption deadline of 1 October 1920. Three manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear at the foot, beneath their respective title designations. |
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| Signature(s) | F.M. Gruls (Vize-Bürgermeister) and Franz Klein (Bürgermeister) and Feldmann (Gemeinderat) |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal notgeld pieces authorized after the First World War, when small coin vanished from circulation almost entirely and communities were left to paper over the gap themselves. Weissenbach an der Triesting is a small market town in Lower Austria on the Triesting river; that a village of this scale was commissioning its own printed currency from a Vienna press in 1920 captures how thoroughly the Habsburg monetary system had disintegrated by that point.
Three separate signatories — the Bürgermeister, his deputy, and a Gemeinderat member — were required to validate the issue, which was typical of the administrative caution these councils applied to what was, legally speaking, a very grey area of emergency money.