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80 Heller Pupping
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pupping (Municipality of Pupping) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey-toned underprint carries the municipality name 'PUPPING' set within an arched guilloche vignette across the upper field, flanked by starburst ornaments and enclosed within a decorative dot-and-dash border frame. Large red numerals '80' appear at left and centre-right within octagonal cartouches, with the redemption text in black letterpress centred between them. The central underprint incorporates a stylised coat-of-arms motif with foliate elements. |
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| Reverse description | A dense ornamental border of interlocking geometric and foliate motifs printed in dark grey-black encloses the entire face, with the denomination legend 'ACHTZIG HELLER' running along the top edge and 'GEMEINDE PUPPING' along the bottom edge in bold block lettering. The central vignette presents a rural riverside scene in fine line engraving, with a horse-drawn towboat team on the bank hauling a barge along a river, a church tower and trees visible in the right background. An artist's monogram appears at the lower right of the vignette. |
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Austrian Notgeld from Gemeinde Pupping, a small municipality in Upper Austria. The 80 Heller denomination is one of the more unusual face values to appear in the Notgeld issues of 1920–1921 — most communes defaulted to round numbers, and the choice of 80 reflects the chaotic, locally-determined nature of emergency currency production in the early Austrian Republic, when individual parishes and townships effectively set their own denominations based on whatever change gaps existed in daily commerce.
The JPR reference places this firmly within the Jaksch-catalogued Upper Austrian series. Survivorship is generally high for Pupping issues, as many were collected rather than spent.