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50 Heller Putzleinsdorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Putzleinsdorf |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green-toned notgeld printed in letterpress, centred on a panoramic vignette of the Putzleinsdorf market square showing a plague column at left, multi-storey civic buildings, a church steeple, and trees receding into a clouded sky. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large figures at upper left and upper right flanking a dark cartouche bearing the text 'Fünfzig Heller' in Gothic script. A foliate scroll border frames the entire design, and the legend 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Putzleinsdorf' is inscribed in ornamental Gothic lettering along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Fünfzig Heller Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Putzleinsdorf |
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Putzleinsdorf is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the Habsburg monetary system in collapse and small coinage hoarded or simply unavailable, hundreds of local authorities — including tiny Marktgemeinden with no banking infrastructure — printed their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving. The Reichsrat had not sanctioned this; it happened anyway, at the parish level.
Collector-issue Notgeld from this period is common. Whether this particular piece saw genuine counter use or was printed primarily for the philatelic trade is a question worth asking before pricing it accordingly.