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50 Heller St. Johann im Pongau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde St. Johann im Pongau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a finely engraved vignette of a woman in traditional Austrian Tracht standing at a wooden fence with an Alpine landscape and haystacks in the background; the denomination numerals '50' appear in the upper corners flanking the vignette. To the right, a circular text panel within a floral and edelweiss border carries the voucher text and three manuscript signatures; the validity date 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' runs vertically along the left edge of the text panel. The entire composition is enclosed within an ornate floral and foliate frame characteristic of Austrian Notgeld design. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde St. Johann im Pongau Gutschein über Fünfzig Heller Die Marktgemeinde St. Johann i. Pg. haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. der erste Gemeindergt.: der Bürgermeister: der Sparkassadirektor: Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird ges. bestraft. |
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St. Johann im Pongau issued this Heller note as part of the broader Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the economic disintegration after 1918. Municipal authorities across the former empire were forced to produce their own small-denomination emergency scrip when federal coinage simply stopped circulating in sufficient quantities — hoarding and metal shortages had gutted everyday transactions. The Marktgemeinde series from this Salzburg market town is among the more localised of these issues, produced for genuinely practical use rather than the collector-targeted "Serienscheine" that flooded the market slightly later.
F. Pech is not widely documented among the major Notgeld designers, which suggests a local or regional commission rather than one placed with a specialist Viennese printing house.