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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pierbach (Municipality of Pierbach, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Dark carmine letterpress note with Art Nouveau floral border and berry-branch vignettes flanking the central text block. The denomination ZEHNHELLER appears in large stylised lettering at the top, below which GEMEINDE PIERBACH is inscribed. A redemption clause and Bürgermeister signature line occupy the lower half, with the issue date and redemption deadline at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress Notgeld note with a bold chequered outer border. A hexagonal vignette at left contains a detailed line-art view of Ritterstein castle rock; the label RITTERSTEIN appears within the vignette, with oak and fir branch motifs below. To the right, NOTGELD is inscribed at the top with the large numeral 10 and HELLER beneath. |
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Pierbach is a small rural commune in the Perg district of Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller Notgeld belongs to the enormous wave of Austrian municipal emergency currency issued between 1919 and 1921. The postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left the central government unable to supply adequate small change, forcing thousands of towns — including remote agricultural communities like Pierbach — to print their own fractional notes. Most were redeemable only locally and for limited periods.
The Jaksch catalogue reference places this squarely in the documented Upper Austrian series. Pierbach's issues are not among the rarer rural Notgeld, but survival in unfolded condition is less common than the print runs suggest — these circulated hard in village commerce before redemption deadlines expired.