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50 Heller Wolfsegg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wolfsegg (Municipality of Wolfsegg) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on plain white paper with a faint red fibre underprint, the reverse presents a purely typographic layout. The denomination '50' in large outlined numerals is centred at the top, flanked by the word HELLER on each side, above a three-line guarantee text in German script. Decorative scrollwork flourishes frame the text block at either side, and a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appears in cursive below the official title, followed by an anti-counterfeiting warning at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Rockstroh |
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Wolfsegg am Hausruck is a coal-mining settlement in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920–1921, it issued its own small-denomination Notgeld when federal coinage essentially vanished from circulation. These local emergency notes were authorized under a broad postwar arrangement that allowed Gemeinden to fill the small-change vacuum left by the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system — the central government simply could not produce coin fast enough to meet demand.
The signature of Josef Rockstroh likely identifies a sitting Bürgermeister or municipal treasurer of the period. No printing attribution for the Wolfsegg series has been firmly established in the major catalogues.