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10 Heller Oberneukirchen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Oberneukirchen (Market Town of Oberneukirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into two vertical panels by a central rule within a plain border. The left panel bears the issuer heading 'Markt Oberneukirchen' in blackletter script, beneath which a three-line verse in Fraktur typeface serves as a thematic motto, followed by validity and redemption conditions in smaller text and a facsimile mayoral signature; a pale ochre underprint of the numeral '10' is visible behind the text block. The right panel carries a vignette of an armoured forearm and gauntleted hand gripping an upright sword above a heraldic medallion with a lamb device, with the word 'Gutschein' inscribed vertically alongside, and the printer's imprint 'FRANZ KLING URFAHR-LINZ' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Markt Oberneukirchen Das Gute vom Alten fördernd erhalten Und männlich gelassen, das Neue erfassen So will es der Wandel der Zeit! Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb 4 Wochen nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung bei der Gemeindekasse Oberneukirchen eingelöst wird. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Bürgermeister: Franz Kafka Gutschein FRANZ KLING URFAHR-LINZ. |
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This is Austrian Notgeld — emergency municipal scrip issued during the severe coin shortage that persisted well after the armistice. Oberneukirchen, a small market town in Upper Austria, authorized these notes through its local government when small-denomination coinage simply wasn't reaching rural communities. Franz Kling's print shop in Urfahr, just across the Danube from Linz, handled a substantial volume of Upper Austrian Notgeld commissions during this period.
The signatory named Franz Kafka is, almost certainly, a local municipal official — the Bohemian writer died in 1924 and held no Austrian municipal posts. A coincidence that has caught collectors off guard more than once.