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50 Heller Pram
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pram (Municipality of Pram) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The left panel carries the issuer's title in Gothic blackletter script alongside the denomination '50 Heller' within an ornate cartouche, surmounted by an Austrian eagle vignette set on a decorative scrollwork ground. The right portion of the note is dominated by a large landscape vignette rendered in a painterly style, showing Schloss Feldegg amid tall conifers and deciduous trees, with the castle's façade partially visible through the wooded setting. A decorative geometric border frames the upper edge of the vignette panel, and a captioned tablet below reads 'Schloss Feldegg bei Pram-Oest. o.d. Enns, erbaut 1593,' with the artist's name E. Kruhl noted at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Pram Oesterreich ob der Enns 50 Heller Schloss Feldegg bei Pram-Oest. o.d. Enns erbaut - 1593 E. Kruhl |
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Pram is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation after the First World War. These local issues were authorized under provincial frameworks but designed and printed at municipal expense, which meant quality and ambition varied enormously from one town to the next.
The E. Kruhl designer credit is uncommon enough in the Notgeld corpus to be worth noting — most small-municipality issues were farmed out to regional printers working from stock templates, so a named designer suggests this issue was commissioned with some deliberate intent.