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50 Heller Pöchlarn
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink-red guilloche underprint covers the left two-thirds of the note, with the title 'Gut-Schein' in ornate Gothic lettering across the top and the denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' split left and right of a central oval vignette. The vignette presents a letterpress view of the Pöchlarn town tower and church steeple reflected at the waterfront. Below the vignette, the issue date 'Pöchlarn 15. Feber 1920' and two manuscript signatures appear under the respective titles 'Der Vizebürgermeister' and 'Der Bürgermeister', with the validity inscription 'Nur gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' flanking the design. The right panel, printed on plain paper, carries the numeral '50', the municipal coat of arms with a standing figure, and the issuer's name 'Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn im Nibelungengau' in Gothic script. |
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| Reverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn haftet für die Einlösung dieser Scheine mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen. Unbefugte Nachahmung dieser Scheine wird gerichtlich bestraft. Pöchlarn, 15. Jänner 1920 |
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Pöchlarn is a small market town on the Danube in Lower Austria, and its municipal notgeld issue of 1920 belongs to the second wave of Austrian emergency coinage — by then less driven by genuine coin shortage and increasingly by local civic pride and the growing collector trade. Many of these later issues were printed in quantities well beyond local need, specifically for philatelic and numismatic buyers. Whether the Pöchlarn 50 Heller falls into that category or reflects genuine transactional demand is difficult to establish with certainty.
The town sits at the confluence of the Erlauf and Danube rivers, and carries associations with the Nibelungenlied — Pöchlarn appears in the epic as the court of the Margrave Rüdiger.