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10 Heller Eggenburg
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Eggenburg |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | Central circular vignette reproduces the historic 15th-century town seal of Eggenburg, showing the walled city with towers and the Latin legend around the rim, captioned "Stadtwappen aus dem 15. Jahrhundert". Two-stanza verse in Gothic script occupies the upper portion, flanked by the redemption clause in blackletter text. A ruled rectangular border frames the composition, with the anti-counterfeiting notice at foot. |
| 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 15. Jahrhundert Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Pressevereinsdruckerei Eggenburg. |
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Eggenburg's 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld issued after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities starved of usable small change. The Pressevereinsdruckerei — the press association's print shop, a distinctly local operation — handled production in-house, which kept the note entirely within the town's own hands from design to distribution.
Eggenburg had a population of only a few thousand at the time. That a town this size ran its own print operation capable of producing circulating currency says something about how thoroughly the old infrastructure had disintegrated by 1920.