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10 Heller Gerotten und Pötzles
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinде Gerotten und Pötzles |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Vignette in dark rose-red letterpress print within an Art Nouveau-style scrollwork border with floral motif at top centre; the central scene shows a farmer guiding a horse-drawn plough across a field, with a rising sun and birds in the background. The denomination is stated in large numerals flanked by the word 'Heller' on either side, below the vignette. An anti-counterfeiting notice appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ortsgemeinde Gerotten und Pötzles. Wegen Kleingeld-Mangel als Notgeld auf die Dauer bis 31. Dezember 1920. Stellvertreter Der Bürgermeister Druck: Ed. J. Wallners Ww. Wien, XX. |
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Gerotten and Pötzles are two small villages in Lower Austria that jointly issued this Heller note during the Notgeld emergency of the First World War, when the collapse of small-denomination metal coinage forced even the most obscure rural communes to produce their own paper substitutes. Joint-issue notes from two distinct settlements sharing a single Ortsgemeinde authority are among the more unusual administrative arrangements in the Austrian Notgeld record.
Ed. J. Wallners Ww. — a Viennese widows' printing house — handled production for numerous small-community issues during this period, which accounts for a certain consistency in paper quality across otherwise unrelated provincial notes.