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50 Heller Perg
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Perg (Market Town of Perg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided notgeld issue printed in dark brown on cream paper. At centre, a circular vignette contains the arms of the market town of Perg, flanked by two standing heraldic supporters, with the inscription MARKT PERG and the date 1432 above. The denomination '50 Heller' appears in bold Gothic lettering on both the left and right sides, framed by dotted guilloche panels. The heading 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Perg, Ob.-Öst.' runs across the top in ornate script, and the lower portion carries a redemption notice and an anti-counterfeiting warning, with decorative floral corner ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Perg, Ob.-Öst. 50 Heller MARKT PERG 1432 Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt in der Zeit vom 15.-31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde. Die Nachahmung unterliegt der gesetzl. Strafe. |
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Perg is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is one of the thousands of Notgeld issues that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1922 — a direct consequence of the postwar coin shortage that left municipalities scrambling to produce their own fractional currency. Emil Priebel in Steyr was a regional printer who handled a number of these local emergency issues across Upper Austria, which gives the series a consistency of production quality unusual for Notgeld of this type.
The Jaksc catalog reference JPR0730I confirms this as an official municipal issue rather than one of the purely decorative "Sammelnotgeld" produced for the collector trade.