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50 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Pupping (Municipality of Pupping, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Ortsgemeinde Pupping, Oberöst. löst diesen Gutschein 4 Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. PUPPING O.OESTERR. 50 50 |
| Reverse description | A pictorial vignette rendered in dark blue-grey tones with pink atmospheric tints portrays Schaumburg Castle perched atop a wooded rocky promontory. Dense masses of conifer and deciduous trees occupy the foreground and middle ground, lending depth to the composition. A small artist's signature appears in the lower left of the vignette, and the castle's name is inscribed in Gothic blackletter script at the foot of the image. |
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Pupping is a small parish municipality in the Eferding district of Upper Austria — the kind of community that, in the chaotic currency drought of 1920, had little choice but to print its own emergency money. These Notgeld issues emerged because the new Austrian republic simply could not produce and distribute small-denomination coinage fast enough to meet everyday transaction needs. Hundreds of communities across Austria did the same, each issuing their own paper Heller notes, creating a fragmented but functional stopgap.
The Jaksch catalog number places this squarely within the documented Upper Austrian municipal Notgeld series. Pupping's issue is among the less commonly encountered ones — small population, small print run.