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50 Heller St. Pankraz
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Pankraz (Municipality of Sankt Pankraz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on buff paper, the upper portion carries the issuer title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Pankraz' above the large denomination legend 'FÜNFZIG HELLER', flanked by numeral '50' in ornate circular cartouches at each upper corner. A central guarantee text affirms the municipality's liability, below which appear two manuscript facsimile signatures — the Vizebürgermeister at left and the Bürgermeister at right — with their respective titles in letterpress. The lower half is occupied by a detailed landscape vignette of the village of Sankt Pankraz set against a mountain backdrop, enclosed within a decorative border of scrollwork; validity date 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' runs vertically along the left margin and an anti-counterfeiting warning along the right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue on buff paper, the reverse is dominated by a large central vignette illustrating a farmer guiding a team of two oxen pulling a plough across a field, with a coiled rope visible at lower left — an agrarian scene rendered in a bold, expressionist woodcut style. The issuer name 'Gemeinde St. Pankraz.' is inscribed in the upper border panel, while the denomination '50 HELLER' appears twice in the lower border, separated by a central ornamental guilloche rosette. The whole composition is enclosed within a decorative frame of interlocking scroll motifs. |
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Sankt Pankraz is a small Upper Austrian village in the Nationalpark Kalkalpen region, and its 1920 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued across Austria and Germany in the immediate postwar years when small-denomination coinage virtually disappeared from circulation. The Austro-Hungarian monetary system had collapsed, the new Republic of Austria was still assembling functional currency infrastructure, and municipalities down to the village level were left to plug the gap themselves.
Emil Priebel in nearby Steyr was a regional printer who produced Notgeld for a number of small Upper Austrian communities during this period. The Jaksc catalogue reference JPR0919-50 places this firmly in the provincial Austrian municipal series.