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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Palting-Perwang (Municipality of Palting-Perwang, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Red and black letterpress Notgeld note with a decorative red border composed of floral and dot motifs framing the central vignette. A ribbon banner in the upper portion carries the issuer name in bold script lettering, flanked on each side by the large black numeral '50'. The central vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Palting rendered in fine black line engraving, with a prominent church steeple rising above rooftops set against a billowing cloud sky; the caption 'Palting' appears above the vignette. A small artist's signature appears in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Typeset reverse in black Fraktur script on plain paper ground, enclosed within a red dotted border. The upper left corner carries a decorative red floral panel alongside the large denomination numeral '50' and the word 'Heller' in bold Gothic type, with the edition notice '1. Auflage.' at upper right. The body text sets out the redemption guarantee and anti-counterfeiting warning in three blocks separated by bold red horizontal rules, followed by the place and date of issue and the Bürgermeister's printed signature. The printer's imprint appears in italics along the lower margin. |
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Palting-Perwang is a small commune in the Innviertel, the slice of Upper Austria that only became Austrian in 1779 — ceded by Bavaria under the Treaty of Teschen. That Bavarian geographic and cultural gravity is still audible in the dialect, and in 1920 it was practically visible in the local economy: postwar Austria had effectively run out of small-denomination coinage, forcing hundreds of municipalities to print their own Notgeld to keep daily transactions moving.
Josef Moser's press in nearby Braunau am Inn handled several such commissions for the region. Bürgermeister K. Boggenberger's countersignature was the legal mechanism that gave the scrip its local validity — without it, the note was just printed paper.