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50 Heller Petronell
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Petronell (Market Town of Petronell) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted Notgeld note with a repeating ornamental border frame, the upper register bearing the issuing authority's title in Gothic blackletter script reading 'Gutschein der althistorischen Marktgemeinde Petronell Carnuntum', flanked by circular cartouches with the denomination '50' in bold numerals above ribbon banners inscribed 'Heller'. The central letterpress vignette illustrates the Heidentor — the Roman triumphal arch ruin of ancient Carnuntum — captioned 'HEIDENTOR', with German-language redemption text arranged in two columns to either side. A facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | J. HERLS Gasthaus Petronell a. d. Donau N.-Oe. (CARNUNTUM) |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced after the First World War, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to fill a coin shortage with locally printed emergency paper. Petronell, a small market town in Lower Austria, authorized this 50 Heller note in 1920 — by which point the Austro-Hungarian Krone was in accelerating decline and small-denomination metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation.
Kunstanstalt Jarisch & Neuhold, the Vienna printer responsible for this series, handled a large volume of municipal Notgeld work during this period. Petronell's issue was purely functional — redeemable only locally, and worthless outside the municipality that issued it.