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50 Heller Werfen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Werfen (Market Town of Werfen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark violet-grey on a tan paper ground, the face is dominated by an ornate cartouche with scrollwork borders enclosing the issuing text and denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' in bold Fraktur script. At the lower centre of the cartouche, a small circular vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Werfen, flanked by two facsimile signatures above the titles 'Gemeindevorstand' and 'Bürgermeister'. The numeral '50' appears in large bold type at each lower corner outside the cartouche frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Werfen Dieser Gutschein über Fünfzig Heller wird bis 31. Dezember 1920 von der Marktgemeinde Werfen in gesetzlichem Gelde eingelöst Gemeindevorstand Bürgermeister 50 |
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Werfen is a small market town in the Pongau district of Salzburg province, and this 50 Heller note is a Notgeld emission — one of thousands of hyperlocal emergency issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921 when small coin virtually vanished from circulation. The national government in Vienna was too occupied with post-imperial fiscal collapse to resupply the provinces with fractional coinage, so municipalities took matters into their own hands.
The JPR1173a designation places it within the Jaksch-Pick regional Notgeld reference, which catalogues Salzburg province issues separately from the broader Austrian corpus. Werfen's emission was modest in scope — the town had fewer than a thousand residents at the time.