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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde-Vorstehung Pühret (Municipality of Pühret) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress Notgeld issue on plain ochre-toned paper, enclosed within a dotted rectangular border. The heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Pühret' is set in large Gothic Fraktur script and separated from the body text by a double horizontal rule, with the denomination 'Heller 10 Heller' centered in mixed type sizes below. A validity and anti-counterfeiting clause follows, with the issuing authority 'Gemeinde-Vorstehung Pühret' and the two printed signatories completing the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Pühret Heller 10 Heller Dieser Schein verliert seine Giltigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter Verlautbarung ∴ Nachahmung strafbar Gemeinde-Vorstehung Pühret: Johann Plözeneder, Bürgermeister Matthias Gastinger, Stellvertreter |
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Pühret is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it printed its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — during the postwar currency chaos that followed the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. The Austrian state simply could not produce enough low-denomination coinage to meet everyday demand, so municipalities issued their own, formally or otherwise.
The two signatories, Plözeneder and Gastinger, were almost certainly local officials rather than bankers. That both signatures appear by hand rather than by facsimile print is typical of the smaller village issues, where production runs were too modest to justify engraved signature plates.