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10 Heller Eschenau im Pinzgau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eschenau im Pinzgau (Municipality of Eschenau im Pinzgau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries a large Gothic-script heading reading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Eschenau im Pinzgau' within a decorative olive-green border with foliate corner ornaments. The left two-thirds of the face are occupied by an oval vignette in blue intaglio-style printing, presenting a view of a village church and adjacent buildings set against a clouded sky, surrounded by scrollwork. A circular panel at the lower left contains the denomination numeral '10' in bold blue type with flanking decorative elements. To the right, a framed text panel carries the validity disclaimer in Gothic script on an olive-green ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is laid out entirely in text within a decorative blue and olive-green border composed of interlaced geometric guilloche patterns and stylised foliate corner motifs. The central text block in Gothic script states the legal basis for the issue, the municipality's liability, and the date of issue. Below the main text, three manuscript signature lines appear under the titles 'Der Bürgermeister', 'Der Gemeinderat', and 'Der Gemeinderat'. A cautionary anti-counterfeiting legend appears at the foot: 'Nachahmung wird gesetzlich verfolgt.' |
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Eschenau im Pinzgau is a small rural community in Salzburg province, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld issued after the First World War, when the collapse of the Habsburg economy and a severe coin shortage forced even tiny villages to print their own emergency currency. Thousands of Austrian and German communities did the same between roughly 1919 and 1922.
The Jaksch-Pick reference places this among the documented Salzburg series, but survival rates for small-denomination rural Notgeld vary wildly — village printings were often short-run and locally redeemed quickly.