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50 Heller Weissenkirchen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Weissenkirchen in der Wachau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Marktgemeinde 50 Heller Die Gemeinde Weissenkirchen i.d.W. haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen Weissenkirchen i.d.W. am 15. April 1920 Der Bürgermeister: Der Obmannstellvertreter: Der Gemeinderat: Weissenkirchen in der Wachau |
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| Reverse lettering | Wenn im Lenz der Obstbaum blüht, Kommt mir immer in den Sinn, Daß zur allerschönsten Frucht Reift doch die — Wachauerin! Just. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Weißenkirchen in der Wachau Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 64.000 Kronen aus. Dieselben sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde Weißenkirchen bis 30. November 1920 in Zahlung genommen und vom 15. bis 30. November 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Weissenkirchen in der Wachau issued this Notgeld 50 Heller note in 1920 as part of the wider Austrian municipal emergency currency phenomenon that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Small market towns across Lower Austria and Styria printed their own fractional notes when coin simply disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or consumed by wartime requisition.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this within a documented series for the Marktgemeinde, suggesting multiple denominations were issued concurrently. Austrian Wachau Notgeld from this period was frequently printed in limited runs by local or regional printers, and redemption was theoretically guaranteed by the issuing commune — a guarantee worth only as much as the municipality's solvency at the time.