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25 Heller Pupping
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Pupping |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue in green and red on a decorative teal guilloche underprint, bordered by interlocking chain-link ornaments with starburst corner elements. The denomination numeral '25' appears in large red figures at both left and right flanks, with 'HELLER' set centrally within the underprint vignette. The issuing municipality 'PUPPING' is arched in bold letterpress across the upper guilloche band, above the typeset redemption text in German. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark grey-blue and cream, the reverse is entirely occupied by a finely rendered artistic vignette of the ruins of Schaumburg Castle, executed in an expressive woodcut or lithographic style with dense foliation framing an arched gatehouse and a wooden scaffold structure in the foreground. An artist's signature appears in the upper right corner of the vignette. The place name 'Schaumburg' is inscribed along the lower edge in Gothic blackletter script. |
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Pupping is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from roughly 1920 onward. These fractional Heller notes were a purely local solution — accepted at face value within the village but worthless the moment you crossed into the next parish. The issuing authority here is the Ortsgemeinde itself, meaning the municipal council rather than a savings bank or merchant association, which was not universal practice.
The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch-Pick Austrian Notgeld catalog. The "IIa" subtype designation typically indicates a specific paper stock or overprint variant within the series.