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50 Heller Wendling
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wendling (Municipality of Wendling) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Violet and red Notgeld on paper, with a decorative guilloche border running along the top and sides. Two oval medallions at left and right each bear the red denomination numeral '50' above and below the word 'Heller'. The central vignette presents a letterpress townscape view of Wendling with church tower, riverside buildings, and rolling hills in the background, captioned below 'Wendelgering - gegründet im...' A two-line text in red along the lower margin records the validity period and bears the signature of the Bürgermeister (mayor) Matilde Wichrart. The heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Wendling' is set in Gothic script across the top. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde-Vorstehung von Wendling hat in ihrer Sitzung vom 2. Mai 1920 beschlossen, zur Abhilfe der Kleingeldnot Notgeld im Betrage von 50.000 Kronen auszugeben und haftet dafür mit ihrem ganzen aktiven Vermögen. Fünfzig Heller! Fünfzig Heller! |
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Wendling is a small parish in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War. The 50 Heller denomination was the workhorse of local Notgeld circulation, covering the small transactions that metallic coin could no longer handle. What distinguishes this particular piece is the signature of Matilde Wichrart, almost certainly the municipal secretary or a senior council official — female signatories on Austrian Notgeld are not the norm, and her name here is a minor administrative curiosity worth noting.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1170a places this in the first and presumably only issue type for Wendling.