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50 Heller Prambachkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Prambachkirchen (Municipality of Prambachkirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 97 × 62 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue on buff paper, the reverse is divided into a left column and a main text panel. The left column carries the word 'Heller' at top and bottom flanking a central circular guilloche device enclosing the numeral '50', separated by ornamental band panels. The right text panel, framed by a geometric border, presents the full issuance declaration in Gothic blackletter script, dated 'Prambachkirchen, am 27. Mai 1920', followed by a boxed anti-counterfeiting warning at foot. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Prambachkirchen. Die Gemeinde Prambachkirchen gibt laut Beschluß vom 27. Mai 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 50.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein nach Ablauf von vier Wochen nach erfolgter Verlautbarung bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Prambachkirchen, am 27. Mai 1920. Heller 50 Heller Die Nachmachung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Prambachkirchen is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller Notgeld was issued in 1920 as part of the wave of municipal emergency money that flooded Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. The central government's inability to supply adequate small-denomination coinage forced thousands of municipalities — including ones this size — to print their own interim scrip. Most issues were redeemed and destroyed within a few years, which is what gives surviving examples any collectible interest at all.
The JPR0779a designation places it within the Jaksch corpus of Austrian Notgeld, the standard reference for Upper Austrian municipal issues.