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50 Heller Palting-Perwang
| Issuer | Gemeinde Palting-Perwang (Municipality of Palting-Perwang) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue-grey and brown tones, with a decorative border of dotted and foliate patterns framing the central design. A ribbon scroll at the top bears the issuer inscription, flanked on either side by the denomination numeral '50' in large script; below, a blue-grey vignette presents a panoramic view of the village of Palting, with a church steeple rising above rooftops set against a clouded sky. A small artist's signature appears at the lower centre beneath the vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Palting-Perwang 50 Palting |
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Austrian municipal notgeld at its most local: Palting-Perwang is a small community in the Innviertel district of Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized parishes, it printed its own emergency small change during the coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. The Innviertel had only been definitively Austrian since 1779, and the region retained a distinct identity — though that had no bearing on the practical problem of 1920, which was simply that low-denomination coins had vanished from circulation entirely.
Bürgermeister R. Voggenberger's signature here is the only accountability mechanism on the note. Municipal issues of this type carried no backing guarantee from Vienna.