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10 Heller Gross-Pertholz
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Groß-Pertholz (Market Town of Groß-Pertholz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher printed in brown on cream paper, enclosed within a plain ruled border. The upper portion carries the issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script across two lines, followed by a guarantee clause in smaller roman type stating the market town pledges its entire movable and immovable assets. The denomination '10' is set in large numerals at centre, flanked by the word 'Heller' in decorative lettering on each side, with the three authorising officials' titles and names arranged below in three columns, and the validity date and anti-counterfeiting warning at foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Anderl, Eduard Kuttner and Carl Amon |
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Gross-Pertholz is a small market town in the Waldviertel, the heavily forested and economically marginal corner of Lower Austria — exactly the kind of place that was forced to print its own emergency currency after the monetary chaos following Austria's defeat in 1918. The collapse of the Habsburg crown's purchasing power and the near-total disappearance of coin from circulation drove hundreds of Austrian municipalities to issue Notgeld in small Heller denominations, simply to make change.
Otto Neugebauer in nearby Zwettl was a regional printer who produced notes for several Waldviertel communities during this period. Three separate signatories — Anderl, Kuttner, and Amon — were almost certainly municipal officials lending the note whatever local institutional authority they could.