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50 Heller Windhaag bei Perg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Windhaag bei Perg (Municipality of Windhaag bei Perg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR1243-50 |
| Obverse description | Left half of the note is occupied by a detailed pen-and-ink style vignette of Schloss Windhaag as it appeared in the 17th century, rendered with fine crosshatching and set against a rolling landscape; a caption beneath the image reads 'Schloss Windhaag im 17. Jahrh.' The denomination '50 h' appears in a bold oval cartouche at upper right, below which the issuing authority text and redemption clause are set in Gothic script. Three facsimile signatures appear at lower right, identified as the Bürgermeister and two Gemeinderäte. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large central vignette rendered in a fine pen-and-ink manner, presenting a panoramic townscape of Windhaag bei Perg with a prominent church tower rising at centre and village buildings spread across a gentle hillside, framed by an elaborate Art Nouveau scrollwork border. The denomination '50' is repeated in the upper left and upper right corners, flanking the header inscription. A small artist's signature is visible in the lower margin of the vignette. |
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Windhaag bei Perg is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a Notgeld issue from the post-WWI currency emergency that produced thousands of similar municipal scrip pieces across Austria between 1919 and 1921. The central government could not supply sufficient small-denomination coinage, so villages and towns printed their own. Windhaag's issue falls squarely in that wave.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR1243-50 places it within the standard catalogued Austrian Notgeld corpus, but Windhaag issued in small enough quantities that surviving examples are less commonly encountered than scrip from larger market towns.