AUSTRIA NOTGELD 50 HELLER PUCKING 1920 - RARE

Description

In the spring and summer of 1920 across Austria every small town and municipality, and even some bishoprics, merchants, and a few private persons, began to issue their own paper money, the so-called
Notgeld
or “emergency money.” Although these notes were sometimes very crude, often they had a high artistic value, depicting a local landmark and bearing a humorous or patriotic verse.  While some were simply called
Notgeld
, the majority were expressly called
Kassenscheine
or
Gutscheine
, i.e., vouchers or short-term notes. The most common denominations were ten-, twenty-, and fifty-heller notes.
They were issued at a certain date and could be redeemed for Austrian legal tender at a specific date in the future. They did not earn interest, but the issuing municipality was liable with all its assets for their redemption.
This is one of the more rare notes issued by the municipality of Pucking.
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