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50 Heller Schärding
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Schärding am Inn |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries three vignettes arranged across the upper half: a view of a medieval stone tower and ruins at left, the municipal coat of arms of Schärding — a checkered field above a key — flanked by the denomination '50 HELLER' at centre, and a view of the Schärding city gate building at right. Below, a five-line text block in Gothic script states the total authorised issue of 80,000 Kronen and the redemption conditions at the Stadtkasse. The printer's imprint 'Emil Prietzel, Steyr' appears at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Schärding a/Inn 50 HELLER Die Stadtgemeinde Schärding a/Inn gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 80.000 Kr aus. (GAB v. 13/3. 1920) Diese Gutscheine werden bis 30. September 1920 bei der Stadtkasse in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Emil Prietzel, Steyr |
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Schärding am Inn is an Upper Austrian border town on the Inn River facing Bavaria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage that plagued the former Habsburg lands after the war. Emil Prietzel was a Steyr-based printer responsible for a number of these local issues across Upper Austria, working at a regional scale rather than the large Vienna security printers.
The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch/Pick Notgeld catalog, the standard Austrian municipal series documentation. Schärding's issues are not among the rarer of the Upper Austrian Notgeld, but border-town pieces attract parallel collector interest from German and Austrian buyers.