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50 Heller Wieselburg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Wieselburg a.d. Erlauf |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Heller WISELPVRG 1072 Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Wieselburg a.d. Erlauf. Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a central baroque cartouche enclosing the municipal coat of arms — a shield bearing a diagonal band — set within elaborate acanthus scroll ornament. Flanking ribbon banners at left and right carry the printed facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister respectively. A text panel arching across the upper portion states the redemption obligation of the market community, with validity and anti-counterfeiting notices on ribbon scrolls at the lower corners. The denomination 'Fünfzig' and 'Heller' appear in large Gothic lettering at upper left and upper right. |
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Wieselburg an der Erlauf is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities, it issued its own emergency scrip during the postwar Heller shortage — a period when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small denominations effectively unavailable through official channels. These Notgeld issues were authorized under Austrian emergency provisions and typically printed locally in short runs, often on whatever paper stock the town printer had on hand.
The JPR1231b suffix in the Jaksch catalog indicates a variant within the Wieselburg series, most likely a color or paper distinction from the primary issue.