50 Heller Purkersdorf

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.