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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pischelsdorf (Municipality of Pischelsdorf, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on pink paper, the obverse carries the municipal name 'Gemeinde Pischelsdorf' in bold lettering at the top, above a woodcut-style vignette of a panoramic village view with a church steeple, rooftops, rolling fields, and dramatic clouded sky. The lower portion bears a multi-line authorization text in German script, citing the council resolution of 19 July 1920 and the mayor's name, Franz Preiser, with the printer's imprint 'Auer-Nußbauer' at the foot; the entire design is framed by a geometric repeating border of interlocking rectangular ornaments. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark reddish-brown on pink paper, the reverse is dominated by a bold denomination numeral '10 Heller' at the upper field, beneath which a woodcut-style vignette presents a striding sower in broad-brimmed hat scattering seed across a ploughed field, with a church steeple and rolling hills visible in the background. The lower panel carries a two-sentence German text concerning the note's validity period and the legal penalty for counterfeiting, all enclosed within the same geometric repeating rectangular border as the obverse. |
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Pischelsdorf's 10 Heller notgeld belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency issued in the immediate postwar years, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities without adequate coin in circulation. The printer Auer-Nußbauer handled a significant volume of Upper Austrian notgeld production during this period, working to local commissions that varied widely in print quality and paper stock.
Franz Preiser's signature as the authorizing municipal official places this squarely within the administrative continuity that survived the transition from imperial to republican Austria — local bureaucracy kept functioning even as the currency it managed disintegrated.