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10 Heller Parz
| Issuer | Municipality of Parz |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld printed in green and dark violet on plain paper, with a leafy foliage underprint occupying all four corners. Circular cartouches at each corner carry the denomination '10 HELLER', while a central ornate cartouche bears the issuer name and the redemption guarantee text referencing the municipal council resolution of 14 March 1920. The legend 'DER BÜRGERMEISTER:' appears below the body text, followed by a handwritten facsimile mayoral signature. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green and dark violet on plain paper over a horizontal-line underprint, the reverse centres on a large circular vignette containing a fine line-engraved view of Schlüsselberg castle set among trees, with a stone archway visible to the right. A ribbon cartouche beneath the vignette carries the inscription 'SCHLÜSSELBERG'. The entire composition is enclosed within a decorative scrollwork border. |
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Parz is a tiny village in Upper Austria — a Gemeinde of a few hundred souls — and like hundreds of similarly small Austrian municipalities, it printed its own emergency small change during the postwar Notgeld period when coin simply disappeared from circulation. These hyperlocal issues, often designed and printed on minimal budgets, were legal tender only within the issuing community, which kept circulation tight and survival rates erratic.
The Jaksch reference places this firmly in the documented Austrian Kleingeldscheine corpus, but issues from villages this small were produced in limited quantities and rarely saw wide collector attention at the time.