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50 Heller Puchenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Puchenau (Municipality of Puchenau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher executed in a Secessionist-influenced graphic style, printed in blue-grey and terracotta red on cream paper. The upper portion carries a woodcut-like landscape vignette of a wooded hillside with a building visible among the trees, below which the large denomination numeral '50' is set within a ruled rectangular cartouche. Bold vertical borders of stylised arrow or leaf motifs in red on a blue ground flank the central panel, while the printer's credit 'KLEMENS BROSCH, URFAHR, 1920.' and the edition inscriptions 'ZWEITE FASSUNG' and 'ZWEITE AUFLAGE' appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Puchenau gibt laut Beschluß vom 3. Juni 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 107.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Puchenau, am 3. Juni 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Anton Breuer. Die Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter: Michl Ganser, Hugo Seyrl. Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. 50 |
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Puchenau is a small village on the north bank of the Danube just west of Linz, and its 1920 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld issued when postwar inflation and a chronic shortage of small change forced hundreds of municipalities to print their own emergency currency. What lifts this particular piece above the anonymous mass of that output is its printer and designer: Klemens Brosch was an Urfahr-born Expressionist graphic artist of genuine ability, whose career was cut brutally short by his death in 1925 at age thirty-four.
Three signatures authenticate the issue — Breuer, Ganser, and Seyrl — an unusually full complement of municipal signatories for a note of this denomination.