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10 Heller Meggenhofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Meggenhofen (Municipality of Meggenhofen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0603IIb-10 |
| Obverse description | Brown letterpress vignette on cream paper within a plain rectangular border. The central scene renders a horse-drawn plough set against dense sheaves of ripe grain filling the upper field and flanking both sides, evoking the agricultural character of the issuing commune. Denomination numerals '10' appear in bold block figures at the upper left and upper right corners, while a cartouche at the base carries the issuer name 'MEGGENHOFEN' in stylised Art Nouveau lettering, surmounted by the inscription 'GEMEINDE 1920'. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress text on cream paper enclosed within an ornate chain-link border with interlaced decorative rosettes at the lateral margins. The upper portion states the print run '500 Serien.' followed by the validity clause 'Ohne Gemeindestempel ungültig.' A centred block of Gothic-script text sets out the municipality's liability guarantee and redemption terms, closing with the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft.' and the authorising title 'Der Bürgermeister.' An oval municipality stamp is impressed in violet ink over the central text. |
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Meggenhofen is a small Upper Austrian village, and like hundreds of similarly sized communities, it issued its own Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Austrian federal government was slow to produce low-denomination coinage, leaving municipalities to fill the gap themselves. These local emergency notes were legal only within the issuing community — a baker in Meggenhofen could accept this 10 Heller slip, but no one in Linz was obliged to honor it.
The Jaksc/Pick "b" suffix indicates a variant, most likely a different stamp color or official seal impression distinguishing it from an earlier issue in the same series.