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50 Heller Wimpassing
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wimpassing an der Pielach |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR1238-50 |
| 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 lettering | 50 HELLER 3. Auflage 50 Heller 2000 Stück Der Krieg verschlang Gold u. Metall darum jetzt Papier zur Not überall. Nachahmung verboten. Gültig bis 31 Dezember 1920. |
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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.