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50 Heller Dorf an der Pram
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dorf an der Pram (Commune of Dorf an der Pram) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress on white paper. A lozenged guilloche border frames the entire note, with the numeral '50' repeated at intervals along all four edges. The denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' and the numeral '50' appear in large Gothic script flanking a central municipal coat of arms vignette. Below, the text identifies the issuer as 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Dorf a.d. Pram', followed by two lines of legal text asserting communal liability and penalties for counterfeiting, with a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Heller 50 die Gemeinde Dorf a.d. Pram gibt Kassen- scheine bis zu einem Ge- samtbetrage von 50000 Kr. Achaz Willinger Diese Scheine werden bis 31. Oktober 1920 bei der Gemein- dekasse in ge- setzlichem Bar- gelde einge- löst. aus Dorf an der Pram, am 25. April 1920. |
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Dorf an der Pram is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Austrian government's failure to produce sufficient small denomination coinage between 1919 and 1922 pushed the burden onto local authorities, resulting in thousands of distinct issues across the country — the sheer proliferation making completist collection of Austrian communal Notgeld a serious undertaking.
The Jaksch reference places this among the documented Upper Austrian issues, though surviving quantities for individual village series vary considerably and are rarely recorded with precision.