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60 Heller
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Wels |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE WELS, GUTSCHEIN ÜBER SECHZIG HELLER DIE EINLÖSUNG ERFOLGT: IM MONAT JUNI 1921 BÜRGERMEISTER CARL RICHTER |
| Reverse description | Bicolour note with a brown Art Nouveau border of scrolling floral motifs flanking a central blue intaglio-style vignette of the Welser Gemüse-Markt (Wels vegetable market), showing market traders and townsfolk with baskets of produce beneath canvas awnings, with a town tower visible in the background. The legend is printed in brown letterpress within a decorative cartouche at the lower margin. |
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Wels issued its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — because the postwar coin shortage made everyday transactions nearly impossible. The 60 Heller denomination is an odd one; most Austrian municipal issues clustered around rounder values, and Wels's decision to print a 60 Heller suggests genuine practical pressure rather than speculative production for the collector market, which plagued many 1920–1921 issues.
Aug. Moser was a local Wels printer, not a specialist security firm. That keeps this squarely in the utilitarian tier of Austrian Notgeld — printed fast, for local use.