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10 Heller Obertrum
| Issuer | Gemeinde Obertrum (Municipality of Obertrum) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | L. Pech |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE OBERTRUM DIE GEMEINDE OBERTRUM HAFTET FÜR 10 HELLER STATLICHEM BÜRGE DE INE DIESEN GUTSCHEIN (UND) LÖST IHN BIS 31. OKTOBER 1920 IN GE |
| Reverse description | Green letterpress impression on buff paper with a repeating small-motif underprint border. A large central vignette portrays a village street scene with rustic buildings and a church tower rising at right, rendered in a detailed woodcut style. The denomination '10' appears in circular medallions at each of the four corners within ornamental frames, and a decorative guilloche band runs along the lower margin. The inscription 'BRAND 1912' appears beneath the central vignette. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld exploded in 1920 as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost entirely — hoarded, melted, or simply never reminted in sufficient quantities after the wartime disruption to the imperial monetary system. Obertrum, a small market town in the Salzburg district, was among hundreds of Gemeinden that printed their own emergency pfennig-and-heller scrip to keep local trade moving. These municipal issues had no backing and no formal exchange guarantee beyond the issuing town's word.
L. Pech's design credit is unusual enough to note — most rural notgeld of this scale came without named designers. Whether Pech was a local printer or a freelance illustrator working the notgeld trade remains unconfirmed.