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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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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress Notgeld on cream paper, with the denomination '50 h' in bold at upper left and right corners flanking vertical panels of ornamental columns. The central vignette presents a detailed line-art view of the parish church of St. Pantaleon set against a dramatic clouded sky, bordered above by a decorative floral guilloche band. Below the church vignette, a motto cartouche reads 'GOTT PREIS UND EHR', followed by the issuing authority inscription in Gothic script, with three manuscript signatures and the municipal coat of arms in the lower lateral panels. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 ST. PANTALEON IM RINGEN DER ZEIT Die Gemeinde St. Pantaleon haftet laut Sitzungsbeschluß vom 4. Mai 1920 für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein bis 31. Dez. 1920 in gesehl. Bargelde einzulösen. Nachahmung wird gesehl. bestraft. |
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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.