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50 Heller Peuerbach
| Issuer | Markt-Verwaltung Peuerbach |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 95 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue and ochre on cream paper, with the denomination numeral '50' in large ochre Gothic script at upper left and upper right, each accompanied by the inscription 'Heller' below. A central vignette presents a woodcut-style rendering of an ornate Renaissance portal, likely the historic town gate or a notable civic building of Peuerbach, executed in dark blue with ochre shadow tones. Flanking the central vignette on each side is a smaller architectural vignette within an elaborate green scrollwork border that frames the entire note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue and ochre on plain buff paper, entirely in calligraphic Kurrent script. The upper portion carries eight lines of a regional dialect poem in praise of Peuerbach, with the denomination numeral '50' in ochre at upper left and upper right flanked by decorative floral ornaments. Below the verse, a two-line validity notice and the issuing authority name are set in a larger calligraphic hand, followed by three columns of handwritten facsimile signatures with their respective role titles. |
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Peuerbach is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small change nearly impossible to obtain. Local administrations were legally permitted to issue their own emergency scrip, and thousands did — briefly, chaotically, and with wildly varying quality control. Three signatories here is slightly unusual for a village-scale issue; most comparable Marktgemeinde notes carried two.