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10 Heller Egelsee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Egelsee (Municipality of Egelsee) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0158c-10 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed Notgeld note in dark blue-black ink on plain buff paper. A central vignette presents a line-drawn view of Schloss Egelsee, a manor house with tower set amid trees, framed by two decorative pillar motifs; a goblet vignette appears at lower left and a bunch of grapes at lower right. The denomination '10 Notgeld 10' is inscribed in an Art Nouveau-style banner across the top, with the municipal guarantee text in Gothic script below the vignette, dated 23.V.1920, and the value '10 Heller' at foot accompanied by three manuscript signatures of municipal officials. The printer's name 'Rohrhofer' appears at lower left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Notgeld 10 der Gemeinde Egelsee die Gemeinschaft für die Einlösung dieses Scheines mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen Egelsee, am 23.V.1920 Heller 10 Heller d.l.gesch.Gemrat. Bürgermeister vizebürgrmst. |
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Egelsee is a small settlement in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar rural communities it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the severe coin shortage that gripped Austria in the years immediately following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. The municipality turned to Chwala's Druck in Vienna's seventh district, a commercial printer with no particular specialization in security printing, which was entirely typical for this tier of hyperlocal issue.
The designer Rohrhofer is otherwise unattributed in major reference literature. The Jaksch/Pick classification JPR0158c identifies this as part of a multi-denomination series from Egelsee, with the "c" suffix distinguishing a specific printing variant.