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50 Heller Weiten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Weiten (Municipality of Weiten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress vignette on cream paper, enclosed within a floral-motif border of repeating blossoms. The central vignette presents a pen-and-ink style townscape of Weiten, with a stone arch gateway, multi-storey buildings, and figures in the foreground, set against a hillside backdrop. To the right, a sculpted knight on a tall column pedestal anchors the composition, while a cartouche in the upper right corner bears the denomination '50 Heller'; the denomination '50 Heller' is repeated in a panel at lower left, with the issuer legend centred along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller Gutschein für Weiten Fünfzig Heller |
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Weiten is a small parish in Lower Austria's Melk district, and this 50 Heller notgeld is one of the more precisely documented pieces from the Austrian municipal emergency money wave of 1920 — unusually, both the printer and the designer are on record. Friedrich Grausgruber was a local schoolteacher, a common source of notgeld artwork in rural Austrian communes that had no access to professional graphic artists.
Chwala's Druck on Zieglergasse in Vienna's seventh district was a modest commercial printer, not one of the major notgeld houses. That detail matters: smaller print runs, less consistent ink coverage, and paper sourced opportunistically are characteristic of this supplier.