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10 Heller Attnang – Puchheim
| Issuer | Gemeinde Attnang-Puchheim (Municipality of Attnang-Puchheim) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain tan paper reverse with an ornamental frame of interlaced chain and rosette motifs enclosing the full text of the notgeld issue authorization in Fraktur script. A faint circular watermark-style underprint bearing text is visible at centre. At the foot of the text panel, the facsimile signatures of the deputy mayor and mayor appear in bold Fraktur, with their respective titles printed above each name. |
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| Signature(s) | Alois Weeder and Karl Tober |
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Attnang-Puchheim sits at a major rail junction in Upper Austria, and by 1920 the town's municipal government was issuing its own Notgeld like hundreds of other Austrian communes scrambling to cover a chronic small-denomination coin shortage that had persisted since the war years. These hyper-local issues were the product of municipal desperation, not monetary ambition — the central authorities simply couldn't produce enough low-value coinage fast enough.
H. Heimlinger's design credit is uncommon enough to be worth noting; most Gemeinde-level Notgeld of this period went to local printers with no named designer at all.