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50 Heller Würnsdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Würnsdorf (Municipality of Würnsdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Heller Gutschein welcher bis 31. Dezember 1920 eingelöst wird. Nachahmung wird bestraft. Würnsdorf, 15. 4. 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Josef Berger. Ludwig Rameder. 50 Heller |
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| Signature(s) | Josef Berger and Ludwig Rameder |
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Würnsdorf is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept through Austrian communes after the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy left the new republic's monetary system badly disrupted. Small-denomination coin virtually vanished from circulation by 1919–1920, hoarded or simply absent, forcing thousands of municipalities to print their own emergency issues. The printer here, Giesser Druckanstalt, handled a number of regional Austrian notgeld commissions during this period.
Signatories Josef Berger and Ludwig Rameder were almost certainly local municipal officials rather than banking figures — standard practice for commune-issued scrip, where civic authority substituted for institutional backing.