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50 Heller Wolfern
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wolfern (Municipality of Wolfern) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde WOLFERN Ober- Österr. Fünfzig 50 Heller Die Gemeinde Wolfern haftet für die Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem gesamten Gemeinde-Vermögen Der Bürgermeister |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Wolfern Vor Nachahmung wird gewarnt. Gültig bis 31. Oktober 1920. 50 |
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Wolfern is a small parish commune in Upper Austria, and its decision to issue notgeld in 1920 places this squarely in the second wave of Austrian municipal emergency money — the so-called "Verkehrsnotgeld" phase, driven not by wartime metal shortages but by a genuine scarcity of small-denomination coins in everyday retail circulation. The postwar Austrian state was in no position to supply adequate coinage, so hundreds of municipalities filled the gap themselves.
Emil Prietzel operated out of nearby Steyr, and his press handled notgeld commissions for numerous Upper Austrian communes during this period. A local printer serving local issuers — the logistics were purely practical.