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50 Heller Wippenham
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wippenham (Municipality of Wippenham) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic vignette of the village of Wippenham occupies the upper portion of the note, printed in a light ochre-gold tone. The central text block, set in a combination of Roman and Fraktur typefaces, states the issuing authority, the municipal council resolution date of 6 June 1920, the denomination in large Gothic script, the redemption terms, and a counterfeiting prohibition. Circular guilloche medallions at each corner and lateral panels bear the word 'Heller' and the numeral '50' in green, while the place name 'Wippenham' appears in large Gothic script along the lower border as an underprint. |
| Reverse lettering | Heller Heller 50 50 Die Gemeinde Wippenham gibt auf Grund des Gemeindeausschußbeschlusses vom 6. Juni 1920 Gutscheine im Werte von Fünfzig Heller aus und löst dieselben bis einschließlich 30. Sept. 1920 in gesetzl. Bargeld ein. Nachahmung dieses Scheines verboten. Frz. Reisegger, V.-B. E. Zeilinger, Bg. Wippenham |
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Wippenham is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this note is a product of the acute coin shortage that plagued Austria in the immediate postwar years. Between roughly 1919 and 1922, hundreds of Austrian municipalities — many of them villages of no particular economic weight — issued their own Notgeld in heller denominations precisely because the central monetary system could not supply enough small change for everyday transactions.
The two signatures, Frz. Reisegger and E. Zeilinger, almost certainly represent local municipal officials rather than banking personnel. Wippenham's issues are among the more obscure in the Upper Austrian Notgeld corpus.