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10 Heller Eggenburg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a finely rendered letterpress vignette of a medieval stone tower ruin overgrown with large trees, set within a landscaped scene characteristic of Austrian Notgeld artistic style. The denomination numeral '10' appears in the upper right corner alongside the inscription 'Heller' in Gothic script, while the title 'Gutschein' runs across the top in bold blackletter. Below the central vignette, the issuing authority 'Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg' is inscribed in decorative Gothic lettering, flanked by the validity date 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' to the right, with three manuscript signatures of municipal officials at the foot of the note. |
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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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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.