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50 Heller St. Pantaleon
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Pantaleon (Municipality of Sankt Pantaleon) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 h GOTT PREIS UND EHR Gutschein der Gemeinde St. Pantaleon Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter: Der Bürgermeister: Gemeinderat: Buchdruckerei Enns |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress design on cream paper with the numeral '50' at upper left and right corners flanking lateral panels each bearing a standing armoured medieval knight. The central vignette shows a mounted knight in full armour on a rearing horse, sword raised, rendered in bold line-art style within a decorative arched frame; a scroll at the top of the arch carries the inscription 'ST. PANTALEON'. A motto band with scrollwork reads 'IM RINGEN DER ZEIT', beneath which appears the redemption text in Gothic script referencing the council resolution of 4 May 1920. Municipal heraldic devices occupy the lower lateral corners. |
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Sankt Pantaleon is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and this 50 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld emergency currency wave that swept Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg empire. Municipal governments across the country were forced to fill a genuine coin vacuum — small denominations had vanished from circulation almost entirely by 1919–1920, hoarded or melted down during years of wartime scarcity.
Buchdruckerei Enns was a local commercial printer in the nearby town of Enns, one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in Austria. Utilitarian output, no engraved plates — just letterpress work serving administrative necessity.