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30 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green on cream paper, the obverse centres on an oval pastoral vignette of the village of Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall enclosed within a decorative rosary-bead chain border, the parish church with its onion-domed tower rising above rooftops amid fields and trees, with stylised radiating lines and wheat-sheaf motifs filling the spandrels. The place name 'Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall' appears in ornate lettering at upper right, the denomination numeral '30' in violet overprint at lower left with 'Heller' in Gothic script at lower right, and the monogram 'KN 1920' printed below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in dark green on cream paper, carries a German-language text block set in a clean roman typeface within a rectangular ornamental border of repeating scroll and wave motifs with small square corner devices. The text records the municipal resolution of 24 May 1920 authorising the issue of vouchers totalling 50,000 Kronen, guarantees redemption with the full assets of the Gemeinde, declares the notes void after 1 October 1920, restricts redemption to pieces bearing the official municipal seal, closes with a counterfeiting warning, and terminates with the printer's imprint in small type below the border. |
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Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall is a small parish municipality in the Steyr-Land district, and this 30 Heller Notgeld from 1920 is exactly the kind of hyperlocal emergency scrip that Austrian municipalities were authorised to produce following the postwar collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system. The central government could not supply small denomination coinage fast enough to meet everyday transactional needs, so thousands of communities — including this one — filled the gap with their own paper issues.
The Druckerei Printsel in Steyr handled production for numerous Upper Austrian municipalities during this period, keeping costs low through shared typographic setups. The official seal substitutes for any more sophisticated security measure — entirely typical for this class of provincial Notgeld, where community authority rather than printing complexity was the deterrent against forgery.