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50 Heller Pierbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pierbach (Municipality of Pierbach, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 July 1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | FÜNFZIG HELLER GEMEINDE PIERBACH DIE GEMEINDE PIERBACH GIBT GUTSCHEINE BIS ZU EINEM BETRAGE V. 50.000 K AUS UND HAFTET FÜR DIE RICHTIGE EINLÖSUNG IN GESETZL. BARGELDE DER BÜRGERMEISTER DIE SCHEINE WERDEN BIS 31. JULI 1921 EINGELÖST PIERBACH IM JULI 1920 |
| Reverse description | Printed in reddish-brown on cream paper, the reverse carries a landscape vignette to the left showing the rocky outcrop of Ruttenstein castle ruins rising above a hillside with stylised tree-lined slopes beneath a clouded sky. To the right, the inscription "NOTGELD" appears in bold letterpress above the large numeral "50" and the denomination word "HELLER". The entire composition is enclosed within a decorative border of repeating foliate and rosette ornaments. |
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Pierbach is a small rural commune in the Perg district of Upper Austria, and its 1920 Heller notes belong to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian municipalities after World War I left the country's small-denomination coinage effectively non-existent. The hoarding and melting of low-value coins during and after the war created a genuine transactional vacuum, and thousands of communes — some with populations under a few hundred — filled it themselves.
The Jaksc reference places this as the second type in the Pierbach series, implying at least one earlier issue. Local Notgeld of this specificity is rarely documented in depth, and survivorship is a function of collector interest at the time rather than original print run size.