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80 Heller
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Wels (City of Wels, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Designer(s) | Aug. Moser |
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| Obverse description | Typographically bold green letterpress design with large Art Nouveau-style block lettering across the upper field. Denomination numeral '80' appears in two guilloche-bordered cartouches at lower left and right, flanked by an ornate scrollwork vignette panel on the right margin. Redemption text and mayoral signature occupy the central lower register. |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio-style vignette of the Welser Wochenmarkt (weekly market), with figures in period dress traversing a broad market street lined with stall awnings and townhouses, a clock tower visible in the background. The scene is framed by vertical Art Nouveau scrollwork panels on both sides and a micro-text guilloche border. Issuer inscription runs along the lower margin within a decorative tablet. |
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Wels issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — during the prolonged coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in 1918. The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one; most municipal issues clustered around 10, 20, and 50 Heller, and the choice of 80 suggests Wels was calibrating specifically against local transaction patterns rather than following any provincial standard.
Aug. Moser, a local printing house, handled both design and production entirely in-house, which kept costs down but also kept quality local. Carl Richter's signature appears as municipal authorizing officer.