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50 Heller Pupping
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pupping (Municipality of Pupping) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and black letterpress note with a guilloche-pattern border of repeating circular rosettes enclosing a plain ruled inner frame. The denomination 'FÜNFZIG 50 HELLER' is set in bold capitals at centre, above which a blue underprint repeats the denomination text. A text block in German gothic script states the redemption obligation of the Gemeinde Pupping, O.-Ö., with the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung ist strafbar' below. The Bürgermeister's name FRANZ HASKMAIR appears at the foot, and the edition designation '1. Auflage A.' is printed in the upper right corner. |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Haskmair |
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Pupping is a village in Upper Austria so small that its notgeld was almost certainly issued to address the acute coin shortage that paralyzed small transactions across Austria between 1919 and 1922 — a problem the central government was too overwhelmed to solve. Municipalities down to hamlet scale printed their own emergency pfennig-equivalent notes, and Pupping's 50 Heller was printed locally by Lanz in nearby Eferding, keeping costs and logistics manageable for a community with minimal administrative infrastructure.
Franz Haskmair's signature as authorizing official is the only named record of whoever ran the municipal office at the time.