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25 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pucking (Municipality of Pucking, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 25 Hellers (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue ink on pink paper, the obverse centres on a letterpress vignette of a traditional Upper Austrian farmstead, with a large courtyard building, mature trees, and a dovecote at upper right with birds in flight; a peasant woman drives cattle, sheep, and a pig through the foreground. Scroll banners carry the legends GEMEINDE at the top and PUCKING below, with the original denomination 10 Heller appearing at lower left and upper right, each overstamped in brown with the surcharge numeral 25. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Pucking gibt laut Sitzungsbeschluss vom 24. Mai 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 30.000. Kr. aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dec. 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzl. bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: Druck V. Langhammer, Linz |
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Pucking is a small parish municipality in the Linz-Land district, and this 25 Heller Notgeld belongs to the wave of emergency coinage substitutes issued by Austrian communes between 1919 and 1921, when metal shortages left daily small transactions effectively impossible. The Gemeinde handled its own procurement, commissioning Langhammer's Linz print shop — a regional commercial printer with no particular banknote pedigree — rather than routing through a specialist security printer.
The pink paper stock is characteristic of Langhammer's lower-cost municipal runs and was not a security feature. Jaksc/Pick 0790llla places this among the rarer Pucking issues; the series is not heavily documented.