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50 Heller Petzenkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Petzenkirchen (Municipality of Petzenkirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green on cream paper, the obverse is enclosed within a decorative foliate border. A central rectangular vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Petzenkirchen with its prominent church steeple. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large gothic script within wreath cartouches at left and right, with 'Heller' inscribed below each. Below the vignette, a three-line German text sets out the legal tender declaration and anti-counterfeiting warning, followed by the issue date 'Petzenkirchen, am 25 Mai 1920' and three facsimile signatures with their respective official titles. |
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| Reverse lettering | Nötgeld der Gemeinde Petzenkirchen Nied.- Öst. 50 Heller Die Gemeinde Petzenkirchen löst diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 1.–31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargeld ein. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Petzenkirchen, am 25 Mai 1920 Der Vicebürgermeister. Der Bürgermeister. Der Finanzrat. |
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Petzenkirchen is a small parish municipality in Lower Austria, and this 50 Heller notgeld is one of thousands of similar emergency issues produced by Austrian towns and communes between roughly 1919 and 1921 — when the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local authorities scrambling to cover coin shortages with printed paper. These issues were authorized at the municipal level and backed by nothing more than local faith and administrative decree.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0740-50 places it firmly within the documented Lower Austrian notgeld corpus, though survival rates for small-commune issues vary widely. Many were printed in limited runs and redeemed quickly; others circulated longer than intended as the Austrian crown continued to deteriorate through 1921 and beyond.