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30 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pürnstein (Municipality of Pürnstein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | Joseph Edgar Kleinert |
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| Obverse lettering | Dreissig Heller J.E. Kleinert - Ottensheim Schloss Pürnstein 30 30 (Translation: Thirty Heller / Pürnstein Castle) |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Hackl (Deputy Mayor) and Leop. Dopretzberger (Mayor) |
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Pürnstein is a small settlement in Upper Austria — the kind of commune that in 1920 had no business issuing its own currency, yet did so anyway. The postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system left rural municipalities scrambling for small-denomination notes to replace the hoarded coins that had vanished from circulation entirely. These locally issued Notgeld pieces were a practical stopgap, authorized under emergency provisions that briefly turned every village council into a de facto monetary authority.
Kleinert's involvement is worth noting — he designed a number of Upper Austrian municipal Notgeld issues during this period, giving some of these small-town pieces a level of graphic ambition well beyond their face value. The dual signatures of both the Mayor and Deputy Mayor follow the authentication convention required to give these notes even a semblance of institutional credibility.