50 Heller Wendling

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.