Catalog
10 Heller Gerotten und Pötzles
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Gerotten und Pötzles |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green Notgeld note printed on cream paper, with an Art Nouveau-style undulating ribbon border enclosing a central rural vignette of a farmer guiding a horse-drawn cart across an open field, a rising sun visible at upper left and birds in flight above a distant mountain range. A stylised edelweiss blossom tops the central frame, with further floral motifs at the lateral borders. The denomination 'Heller 10 Heller' is set in bold letterpress below the vignette, followed by the anti-counterfeiting legend 'Die Nachahmung wird gesetzl. bestraft.' |
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| Obverse lettering | Heller 10 Heller Die Nachahmung wird gesetzl. bestraft. |
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Gerotten and Pötzles are two small Lower Austrian hamlets that, like hundreds of Austrian rural communes, were forced into emergency currency during the Heller shortage of the First World War and its immediate aftermath. The Reich's small-change coinage had essentially vanished from circulation by 1916 — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — leaving local governments to fill the gap with their own Notgeld issues. Ed. J. Wallners Ww. in Vienna was a commercial printer that handled a large volume of these municipal commissions, which accounts for the relatively consistent quality across otherwise obscure issues.
The JPR0233b designation suggests at least two distinct types for this commune, with this the second variant.