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50 Heller Winklarn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Winklarn (Municipality of Winklarn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Winklarn Fünfzig Heller 50 Gültig bis 30. Dezemb. 1920. Nachahmung wird bestraft |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Winklarn Fünfzig 50 Heller Die Gemeinde Winklarn, Bezirk Amstetten, N.-Ö. gibt auf Grund des Sitzungsbeschlusses vom 12. April 1920 Gutscheine zu 10, 20 und 50 Heller aus haftet für die Verbindlichkeit derselben. Johann Hohensteiner, Vicebürgermstr. Johann Hochholzer, Bürgermstr. Josef Sommer, Kassaresidenz. Entwurf: Emerich Kratky. — Druck v. F. Kielar, Amstetten. |
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Winklarn's Heller notes were part of the vast Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918 — small municipalities printing their own emergency scrip because coins had essentially vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down. F. Kielar of Amstetten was a regional printer who handled several of these local issues, keeping production costs low enough for villages with negligible budgets. Three signatures were required for validity: the Bürgermeister, Vicebürgermeister, and a treasury witness, a formality that reflects how seriously these tiny authorities took the legal exposure of issuing currency.
Emerich Kratky's design credit is unusually specific for a village issue of this scale.