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50 Heller Pierbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pierbach (Municipality of Pierbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued in violet on cream paper in an Art Nouveau hand-lettered style. The central text panel carries the denomination 'FÜNFZIG HELLER' within a decorative cartouche, with numeral '50' repeated in stylised frames at upper left and upper right, below which 'GEMEINDE PIERBACH' is inscribed in bold block lettering. Flanking the text, scrolling foliage and berry branches frame the note on both sides, while a lower cartouche contains the redemption and place-of-issue text, accompanied by a handwritten mayoral signature. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue-green on cream paper, the reverse carries a landscape vignette at left depicting Ruttenstein Castle ruins atop a rocky hillside, with rolling fields, a solitary tree, and clouds rendered in fine line-work. A decorative border of stylised floral and leaf motifs frames all four sides. To the right of the vignette, the word 'NOTGELD' appears in large bold lettering above the numerals '50' and the word 'HELLER', with the caption 'RUTTENSTEIN' below the castle image. |
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Pierbach is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly modest municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy after 1918. These locally printed emergency notes were technically redeemable but functionally trusted only within the issuing community — a stranger arriving in Pierbach with this note had little guarantee anyone outside the parish would honor it.
The Jaksch reference confirms this as a documented type, but Pierbach issues are not widely traded, and surviving examples in any condition are simply not common in the market.