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99 Heller Puchenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Puchenau (Municipality of Puchenau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 99 Hellers (0.99) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in teal, dark brown, and green in a bold Expressionist woodcut style. The upper half presents a vignette of five owls perched on a branch against a teal night-sky background with a full moon, while the lower half displays the large denomination numeral '99' within a rectangular cartouche framed by stylised leaf ornaments on each side. The lower margin bears the printer's imprint, edition designation, and print run notation. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Puchenau gibt laut Beschluß vom 3. Juni 1920 Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 107.000 Kronen aus und haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dezember 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Puchenau, am 3. Juni 1920. Der Bürgermeister: Anton Breuer. Die Bürgermeister-Stellvertreter: Michl Ganser, Hugo Seyrl. Nachmachung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Staat verbietet Kronenscheine, Drum begnüg' ich mich mit neunzig-neune, Denke dir den Heller dazu, der Staat So hast du eine Krone, hat seine Ruh! |
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Puchenau is a small village on the north bank of the Danube opposite Linz, and this note is one of hundreds of Austrian Notgeld issues from the postwar inflation period — but the designer sets it apart entirely. Klemens Brosch was a genuinely accomplished Linz-born artist who died in 1926 at thirty-six, leaving a body of work now held in major Austrian collections. His involvement in municipal emergency currency was unusual for someone of his caliber, and Puchenau was fortunate to have him accessible across the river in Urfahr.
Three municipal signatories authenticated the issue — Breuer, Ganser, and Seyrl — a formality typical of the Gemeindeamt approval process under Austrian local governance at the time.