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50 Heller Wernstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wernstein am Inn (Municipality of Wernstein am Inn) |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and black letterpress Notgeld on paper with a wavy-cut border. A central ornate cartouche with scrollwork surrounds the denomination text 'FÜNFZIG HELLER' in bold letters, flanked on both sides by large numeral '50' within decorative guilloche panels inscribed 'HELLER'. Below the cartouche, a redemption clause text block references the municipality's obligation, followed by the issuing authority line 'DIE GEMEINDE-VERTRETUNG' and three manuscript facsimile signatures; the printer's imprint 'JOS. FEICHTINGERS ERBEN, LINZ.' appears at the lower left margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | FÜNFZIG HELLER 50 GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE WERNSTEIN A/INN WERNSTEIN 50 |
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Wernstein am Inn is a village of a few hundred people on the Austrian bank of the Inn River, directly opposite the Bavarian town of Neuhaus. This note is a Notgeld issue — emergency municipal scrip of the kind that flooded rural Austria and Germany during the severe coin shortages of 1920. Jos. Feichtingers Erben was a well-established Linz printing house that fulfilled a large volume of these small-denomination municipal commissions across Upper Austria during that period.
The "b" suffix in the Jaksch reference indicates a variant, likely differing from the "a" type in paper stock, ink shade, or a minor typographic detail.