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80 Heller Pupping
| Issuer | Pupping, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 80 Heller (0.80) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette in blue-grey tones rendered in a fine line illustrative style, showing a horse-drawn towpath scene along a river: a team of horses guided by a figure on the bank pulls a laden boat upstream, with dense trees and a church steeple visible on the right bank. The vignette is enclosed by a wide ornamental border of geometric and foliate repeating units in dark blue-grey, with the denomination and issuer inscriptions integrated into the top and bottom border bands. |
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| Protection description | No watermark |
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| Comments |
Pupping is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the economic chaos that followed Austria-Hungary's collapse. The 80 Heller denomination is an odd choice, since most Notgeld issues gravitated toward rounder values; it suggests the municipality was trying to fill a very specific gap in local small change rather than simply participating in what had by 1920 become something of a collector-driven industry.
The watermarked paper on a note of this scale and issuer is worth noting — many comparable rural Notgeld were printed on plain stock with no security feature whatsoever.