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10 Heller Gross-Pertholz
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Groß-Pertholz (Market Town of Groß-Pertholz) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0295IIIe-10 |
| Obverse description | Plain buff paper note printed in dark brown ink throughout, with a wave-pattern underprint covering the entire field and a simple rectangular border. The title 'Gutschein der Marktgemeinde Groß-Pertholz' appears at the top in Gothic blackletter script, followed by a two-line guarantee clause in smaller type. The denomination is expressed both in words ('Zehn') and numerals ('10 Heller') across the centre, flanked by small ornamental lozenges. At the foot, three official signatories are named in their respective roles, with the validity date 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' and a counterfeiting warning in the lowest register. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper reverse with an allover wave-pattern underprint and a simple double-rule rectangular border. The numeral '10' is printed in large bold type at the centre, flanked above and below by symmetrical scroll ornaments forming a minimal decorative frame. The field is otherwise unadorned, in keeping with the austere emergency-issue character of the note. |
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Gross-Pertholz is a small market town in the Waldviertel region of Lower Austria, and this Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria during the First World War. Municipal authorities across the country were authorized to issue their own emergency paper — Notgeld — to keep local commerce functioning when coins vanished from circulation into hoarding and wartime metal requisitions. Three local officials signed each note: the Bürgermeister, Vizebürgermeister, and a council member, a tripartite authentication arrangement common to Austrian communal issues of this period.