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50 Heller Windegg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Windegg (Municipality of Windegg, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 HELLER Notgeld der Gemeinde Windegg |
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| Reverse lettering | 400 Serien. Nr. Ohne Gemeindestempel ungültig. Die Gemeinde Windegg haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit. Die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines erfolgt innerhalb 4 Wochen nach erfolgter öffentlicher Verlautbarung. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister. |
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Windegg is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the dissolution of Austria-Hungary. The 50 Heller denomination places this squarely in the mainstream of that emergency coinage substitute wave of 1920, when the new Austrian state had neither the metal nor the minting capacity to supply small change at scale.
Validation by official municipal stamp was the only authentication mechanism — no serial numbers, no watermarks. That simplicity made counterfeiting trivially easy, though the hyperlocal acceptance zone made it largely pointless.