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50 Heller Weissenkirchen bei Frankenmarkt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weissenkirchen bei Frankenmarkt (Municipality of Weissenkirchen bei Frankenmarkt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Weissenkirchen. bei Frankenmarkt O.Ö. Fünfzig 50 Heller St. Margarita am Walde. Die Gemeinde Weissenkirchen haftet lt. Beschluss v. 19/5. 1920 für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein bis 31/12. 1920 in ges. Bargelde einzulösen. Joh. Lenzenweger Bürgermeister |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper, the reverse is dominated by a photographic-style vignette of the parish church of Weissenkirchen bei Frankenmarkt, showing the whitewashed church with its distinctive onion-domed tower set against a rural landscape with trees and a dirt road in the foreground. A plain rectangular border frames the composition, and an inscription identifying the subject runs along the upper margin. |
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Weissenkirchen bei Frankenmarkt is a small Upper Austrian village, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the currency chaos following Habsburg dissolution and the acute small-coin shortage that left municipal governments no practical alternative to self-issue. Thousands of Austrian communes printed their own emergency paper; the Jaksch-Pick catalog documents over a thousand distinct series, and Weissenkirchen's is among the more obscure rural entries.
The .2 suffix in the reference indicates a second variant within the local issue, typically a printing or signature difference from the primary type.