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50 Heller Wimpassing
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wimpassing an der Pielach |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note with a decorative floral ornament underprint at left and a central vignette presenting a street-level view of the village of Wimpassing, with a church tower and hills visible in the background. A dotted ornamental border frames the vignette. The denomination legend appears in bold blackletter script above the vignette, with the issuing authority inscription and a guarantee clause in smaller script below, followed by three manuscript signature lines. |
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| Reverse description | Light green and black bicolour note with stylised floral side panels serving as lateral borders. The denomination '50 HELLER' appears in large teal letterpress at the top centre, flanked by numeral '50 / Heller' panels on each side. A central text block carries a verse inscription and the validity date, below which sits a vignette of an aerial-perspective view of a local estate or manor complex set in a rural landscape. Edition and print-run notations appear at the lower corners. |
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Wimpassing an der Pielach is a small market commune in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to issuing its own emergency currency during the Notgeld period — roughly 1919 to 1921 — when the postwar Austrian state could not produce small-denomination coinage in sufficient quantities. These hyper-local issues were authorized under provincial frameworks but designed and printed entirely at municipal discretion, which accounts for the enormous variation in quality and survival across the series.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1238 places this squarely within the documented Lower Austrian municipal Notgeld corpus. Survivorship is largely a matter of chance — many were redeemed and pulped, others kept as curiosities by locals from the outset.