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10 Heller Ober-Grafendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ober-Grafendorf (Municipality of Ober-Grafendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Ommer, St. Pölten |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress on cream paper with a decorative leaf-and-vine border framing the entire note. A vignette on the left half shows a rural church with a steeple set among trees, rendered in fine line engraving. The denomination '10' and the Gothic-script legend 'Zehn Heller' appear at the upper portion, while the right half carries the redemption text in Gothic script, with three signature lines below for the Bürgermeister and two deputy mayors. The issuer name 'Ober-Grafendorf N. Oe.' is set in large Gothic letters along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Zehn Heller Die Gemeinde gibt diesen Gutschein für einen Betrag von 10.000 Kronen aus und löst je 10 Stück desselben bis 31. Oktober 1920 gegen eine ö. ö. Kronennote ein. Fälschungen sind von der Einlösung ausgeschlossen und werden gerichtlich verfolgt. der Bürgermeister: I. Oberbürgermeister: Ignaz Ployl II. Vizebürgermeister: Wolfgang Olaga Ober-Grafendorf N. Oe. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this type emerged directly from the postwar coin famine — the Habsburg monetary system had collapsed, small change had vanished from circulation, and hundreds of Lower Austrian communes were left to print their own stopgap fractional currency. Ober-Grafendorf, a small market town near St. Pölten, issued through the local Ommer print shop, the same firm that handled notgeld for several neighboring municipalities in the region.
The JPR0682a series is among the more modestly produced Lower Austrian examples — no elaborate artwork, no collector-targeted souvenir printing that inflated so many 1920–1921 notgeld issues.