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60 Heller Waldkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Waldkirchen am Wesen (Municipality of Waldkirchen am Wesen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in teal-green ink on cream paper and divided into three vertical vignette panels within a dotted border. The left panel presents a landscape vignette captioned 'Ruine Wesen' with a river valley and wooded hills; the central panel carries a townscape vignette of Waldkirchen with a prominent church spire set against rolling hills, flanked above by the year '19 20' in two parts; the right panel shows an elevated panoramic view of the town captioned 'Wekenuser (?)', with the denomination '60 Heller' printed in bold Gothic numerals and lettering in the upper corners of the left and right panels respectively. The issuer text 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Waldkirchen a. W.' is rendered in ornate Gothic script across the lower central section. |
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| Signature(s) | Anton Peham |
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Waldkirchen am Wesen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 60 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1922 — a direct consequence of the currency chaos following the collapse of the Habsburg empire and the acute shortage of small-denomination coinage. Local authorities were legally permitted to issue their own emergency fractional currency, and hundreds of municipalities did exactly that.
Anton Peham's signature as issuing authority anchors the note to a specific local administrative moment. The paper itself was often sourced regionally, and print quality across Upper Austrian municipal issues varies considerably within the same series.