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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 | Green and black letterpress Notgeld note with an ornate central cartouche bearing the denomination FÜNFZIG HELLER and issuer text, flanked by large numeral 50 on both left and right. An anti-counterfeiting legend runs along the top margin, and below the cartouche appears the redemption clause text along with three manuscript signatures above the imprint of the printer at the lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | FÜNFZIG HELLER 50 WERNSTEIN GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE WERNSTEIN A/INN 50 |
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Wernstein am Inn is a small municipality on the Austrian bank of the Inn river, directly across from Bavaria — a border position that made small-change shortages during World War One acutely disruptive to everyday trade. This note is a Kriegsnotgeld issue, produced because the wartime hoarding of metal coins left towns like Wernstein without functional small denomination currency for local transactions. Jos. Feichtingers Erben was a Linz printing firm that fulfilled a large number of such municipal commissions across Upper Austria, making them one of the more prolific regional Notgeld printers of the period.