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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis (Municipality of Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN 50 HELLER PFARRKIRCHEN i/M. 2. Auflage Jos. Waitl Linz |
| Reverse description | Text-only layout within a decorative chain-link border. Upper section carries a dialect poem from the "Mühlviertl-Märl" by N. Hanrieder in two columns, followed by the issuing authority legend and a redemption clause in German script. The Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appears at lower right, with a counterfeiting warning at lower left. |
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Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis is a small rural commune in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel, and this 50 Heller Notgeld is characteristic of the flood of emergency municipal paper that Austrian towns and villages issued between 1919 and 1921 — not because they wanted to, but because the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left ordinary commerce without viable small change. The central government simply couldn't keep up with demand for low-denomination coin.
Jos. Waitl was a Linz-based printer responsible for a considerable number of Upper Austrian Notgeld issues during this period. The provincial concentration matters: notes commissioned from local printers rather than Vienna specialists tend to show less elaborate engraving, and Waitl's output reflects that economy of means.