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50 Heller Altenmarkt im Pongau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altenmarkt im Pongau (Municipality of Altenmarkt im Pongau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in white presents a detailed line-art illustration of the parish church of Altenmarkt im Pongau with its distinctive onion-domed tower, set against a sketched sky with clouds. The central panel is flanked on both sides by dark red panels bearing the denomination numeral '50' in white-framed boxes above the inscription 'HELLER', with the words 'GUTSCHEIN ÜBER' arranged vertically in the side panels. The issuer's name 'GEMEINDE ALTENMARKT i. PONGAU' is inscribed in bold letterpress across the top of the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark red on a dense floral and rosette guilloche underprint that fills the entire field. A central hexagonal white panel contains the redemption text in letterpress, flanked by two white diamond-shaped panels each bearing the numeral '50'. The Bürgermeister's title and manuscript signatures appear within the central panel, with the redemption and anti-counterfeiting notices printed at the foot. |
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One of roughly 4,000 distinct Notgeld issues produced by Austrian municipalities and local bodies in the years immediately following World War One, this Heller note from Altenmarkt im Pongau was a practical response to a genuine coin shortage that persisted well into the early 1920s. The central government in Vienna could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday commercial needs, so communes were left to print their own.
Altenmarkt im Pongau sits in Salzburg province, and like most small Salzburg market towns, its local Notgeld was printed in modest quantities for purely functional use — not the decorative collector series that larger Austrian towns began producing once they realized philatelists would pay for them.