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50 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis (Municipality of Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN 50 HELLER PFARRKIRCHEN i/M. 2. Auflage Jós. Walff Linz |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with a decorative chain border enclosing a dialect poem excerpt from 'Mühlviertl-Märl' by N. Hanrieder, followed by the legal tender text 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Pfarrkirchen i.M.' in bold lettering. The redemption clause and counterfeiting warning are printed below, with a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister at lower right. |
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Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis is a small rural municipality in the Mühlviertel, and this note is a product of Austria's Notgeld emergency — the post-WWI collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left provincial towns so short of small change that municipalities, businesses, and even individual farms began printing their own fractional currency. The 1920 wave of Upper Austrian Gemeinde issues was largely coordinated through local printers; Josef Walff in Linz handled a significant number of these municipal commissions across the region.
Jaksc 0744 is among the more obscure entries in the Upper Austrian Notgeld corpus. Short print runs and purely local circulation mean attrition was high — these were used hard and discarded once the federal coinage situation stabilized.