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10 Heller Eggenburg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein 10 Heller die Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 der Vizebürgermeister: der Bürgermeister: der Gemeinderat: |
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| Reverse lettering | Gold in goldener Zeit, und Eisen in eisernen Tagen. Jetzo nur hält uns Papier. Wich'es doch balde dem Gold! die Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg löst diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 15.-31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bar- geld ein und haftet für diese Verpflichtung mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Stadtwappen aus dem 13. Jahrhundert Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Pressevereinsdruckerei Eggenburg. |
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Eggenburg's 10 Heller notgeld emerged from the coin shortage that plagued Austria in the immediate postwar years — small denomination metal coinage had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation, forcing municipalities across the former empire to print their own stopgap fractional currency. The Pressevereinsdruckerei was the town's own press association printer, meaning this note was produced entirely within Eggenburg itself, a genuinely local operation down to the ink.
By 1920, Austrian municipal notgeld had also become a minor collecting craze, and some issues were printed in quantities well beyond local need specifically to sell to collectors — whether Eggenburg participated in that market is not firmly established.