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50 Heller Weistrach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weistrach (Municipality of Weistrach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Brown and blue-grey letterpress vignette of a bearded peasant figure seated at left, pouring from a large jug into a glass, with a panoramic view of the town of Weistrach and its church steeple in the right background. A decorative ribbon banner across the centre carries the issuer's name in Gothic script, with the denomination cartouche in the upper right corner. A dialect verse in a boxed panel occupies the upper left, and the designer's and printer's credits appear in small text along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Dös beste Getränk, wann i wiadawöll denk, wann i nur a weng last, is allweil der Most! Gutschein der Gemeinde Weistrach 50 Heller Entwurf Emerich Krafft Druck v. J. Nielat, Amstetten |
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Weistrach is a small parish municipality in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly modest Gemeinden, it issued emergency currency — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The Amstetten printer J. Nielat handled several local issues in the region, making this a product of genuine provincial practicality rather than the collector-targeted decorative Notgeld that flooded the market from larger Austrian cities around the same time.
Emerich Krafft's involvement as designer is the one detail worth pausing on — local Notgeld at this level rarely received credited artistic input, and the Jaksc/Pick suffix "c" indicates this is the third variety in the 50 Heller denomination, suggesting the series saw enough demand or revision to warrant multiple printings.