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50 Heller Purkersdorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Purkersdorf (Market Town of Purkersdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain buff-toned paper with a simple rectangular border rule forming a frame, the interior field left entirely unprinted. No text, vignette, or additional ornament appears within the border. |
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| Signature(s) | H. Buchmüller (Bürgermeister) and Franz Josef and Robert Hohenwarter (Vizebürgermeister) |
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Purkersdorf is a small market town west of Vienna, and this note is a product of Austria's catastrophic post-WWI currency fragmentation. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to produce their own emergency notes — Notgeld — to address chronic coin shortages. Thousands of Austrian towns issued them, but locally printed examples like this one, produced by a printer within the same community rather than contracted to a Vienna or Graz trade press, are notably less common in the series.
Three signatories authenticated this issue: the Bürgermeister Buchmüller and two Hohenwarters sharing the Vizebürgermeister role — an unusual dual deputy arrangement worth noting.