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20 Heller Pupping
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pupping (Municipality of Pupping) |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | This Notgeld gutschein is printed as a double-note on light green paper with a repetitive circular guilloche underprint border, perforated vertically through the centre for separation into two identical halves. Each half bears a dotted rectangular frame enclosing the issuer inscription at upper left, the denomination numeral 'XX' in large bold Roman numerals at centre, and the word 'HELLER' in bold letterpress below; the payment obligation text and a counterfeiting warning are set in smaller Gothic typeface, with the mayor's signature line reading 'Der Bürgermeister: Franz Haslmair' at the foot. The printer's imprint 'Lanz, Eferding' appears at the lower right of the complete uncut sheet. |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Haslmair (Bürgermeister) |
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Pupping is a small parish municipality in Upper Austria, just west of Eferding, and its decision to issue notgeld during the coin shortage of the First World War years was entirely typical of rural Austrian communes scrambling to keep small transactions moving. What makes this piece locally specific is the printer: Lanz of Eferding was a regional press, not one of the major Vienna or Graz houses, which gives the note a distinctly provincial character in both typography and paper stock.
Franz Haslmair signed as Bürgermeister — his signature being the primary guarantee of redemption for a municipality with no banking infrastructure of its own.