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50 Heller Pitzenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pitzenberg (Municipality of Pitzenberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress reverse centred on a text panel headed 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE Pitzenberg' in decorative blackletter typeface, followed by the guarantee and validity clause in block capitals. Two smaller vignettes depicting local architectural subjects — a church and a village scene — flank the upper portion of the central panel, above ornamental geometric bands with repeating oval motifs. The facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister appears below the text block, with the printer's imprint 'Federmeier-Druckerei in Wels' noted at the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE Pitzenberg DIE GEMEINDE PITZENBERG HAFTET FÜR DIESEN SCHEIN BIS ZUM 1. OKTOBER 1920 d. Bürgerm: K. Reithinger. Schw. Federmeier-Druckerei in Wels |
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Pitzenberg is a small parish commune in Upper Austria — the kind of locality that would have been entirely invisible in numismatic terms were it not for the Notgeld emergency. In 1920, with small coin still effectively absent from everyday commerce, hundreds of Austrian municipalities commissioned their own fractional paper scrip, and Pitzenberg was among them. The Federmeier printing house in Wels handled a significant share of Upper Austrian municipal issues during this period, making attribution here unusually clean.
Reithinger's design credit is worth noting — named designers on Notgeld of this scale are not universal, and his involvement suggests this wasn't purely a utility print job.