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50 Heller Zell an der Pram
| Issuer | Gemeinde Zell an der Pram (Municipality of Zell an der Pram) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Hellers (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper, with a dense border of repeated numeral '50' within interlocking circles running along all four edges. The large denomination heading '50 Fünfzig Heller 50' is set in Gothic blackletter script at the top. A central vignette shows a view of Schloss Zell with its tower and outbuildings, captioned 'Schloss Zell im 16und 17 Jahrhundert'; flanking text blocks in German script state the total issue amount of 30,000 Kronen on the left, and the redemption terms at the Gemeindekasse until 31 December 1920 on the right. The date of issue 'Zell a.d. Pram, am 20. April 1920' appears along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper, with the same repeating numeral '50' circle border as the obverse. The denomination 'Fünfzig Heller' is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script flanking a central heraldic shield bearing a rampant lion, with '50 Gutschein' to the lower left and '50 Zell a.d. Pram' to the lower right. Below the heading, the text 'der Gemeinde' introduces two lines of warranty and anti-counterfeiting text, followed by a line identifying the signatories by their official titles. Four manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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Zell an der Pram is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities it resorted to issuing its own Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Austrian federal government's failure to produce adequate small-denomination coinage in 1919–1920 pushed the burden onto local authorities, who printed these emergency pieces in short runs, often with purely local circulation and a fixed redemption window.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this firmly in the mainstream of Upper Austrian communal Notgeld — competently issued, quickly redeemed, and now surviving almost entirely as collector material rather than circulated currency.