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10 Heller Pabneukirchen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Pabneukirchen (Market Municipality of Pabneukirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple-violet ink on cream paper, the obverse bears the denomination numeral '10' in ribbon banners at upper left and right, with the title 'Gutschein der Markt-Gemeinde Pabneukirchen Ob.Öst.' rendered in ornate Fraktur script across the upper register. The central vignette presents a paired landscape contrasting Alingenberg castle as it stood in 1674 at left against its ruined state in 1920 at right, with a medieval standard-bearer figure in the foreground. The denomination 'Zehn Heller' appears in a scroll cartouche at the base, the entire composition enclosed within a decorative ruled border with foliate corner ornaments. |
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| Signature(s) | Pilz and Steindl (Vizebürgermeister) and Holzer (Bürgermeister) |
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Pabneukirchen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld crisis that forced hundreds of Austrian municipalities to print their own small-denomination emergency money between 1919 and 1921. The central government's coin shortage after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left local commerce essentially paralyzed at the low end, and market towns like Pabneukirchen had little choice but to fill the gap themselves.
Priezel & Stehr operated out of Steyr — itself only about 40 kilometers west — making this a genuinely local production rather than one of the many Austrian Notgeld pieces farmed out to Vienna printers. The countersignatures of both the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister were required to validate each note.