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50 Heller Eschenau im Pinzgau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eschenau im Pinzgau (Municipality of Eschenau im Pinzgau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Eschenau im Pinzgau Dieses Ersatzgeld verliert seine Giltigkeit, wenn es nicht innerhalb vier Wochen nach der erfolgten öffentlichen Bekanntmachung bei der Gemeindetasse von Eschenau zur Einlösung gebracht wird. 50 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and olive-green and centres on a large cartouche with a fine hatched guilloche underprint, enclosed by a symmetrical foliate and scroll border with decorative corner rosettes. The cartouche contains the authorising text in Gothic script, including the issuance resolution date of 11 July 1920 and the formal date of 18 July 1920, followed by three facsimile signature lines for the Bürgermeister and two Gemeinderäte. A counterfeiting warning in Gothic script appears at the foot of the cartouche. |
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Eschenau im Pinzgau is a village in the Salzburg Alps with a population that barely crested a few hundred at the time of issue. That a municipality this small produced its own emergency currency is less surprising than it sounds — the Austrian Notgeld wave of 1919–1921 swept through thousands of communities of every size, driven by a chronic coin shortage that the central government in Vienna simply could not resolve after the collapse of the Habsburg economy.
The JPR0188a designation places this within the Jaksch catalog of Salzburg provincial Notgeld, a series that documented enormous regional variation in print quality and paper stock. Eschenau examples are among the harder rural Pinzgau issues to locate today.