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10 Heller Petzenkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Petzenkirchen (Municipality of Petzenkirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on pink paper, the obverse bears the title inscription 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Petzenkirchen' in Gothic script across the top, flanked by the abbreviations 'Nied.' and 'Öst.' A central vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Petzenkirchen, framed by a rectangular border with decorative scrollwork. The denomination '10 Heller' appears on both left and right sides within wreath cartouches tied with ribbon bows, and a legal tender text below the vignette states the note's validity from 1–31 December 1920, with the date 'Petzenkirchen, am 25. Mai 1920' and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Petzenkirchen 10 Heller Schloß Petzenkirchen 16 oo. |
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Petzenkirchen is a small Lower Austrian municipality, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a period when coin shortages were so acute that hundreds of individual towns and villages printed their own emergency fractional currency. The federal government neither sanctioned nor effectively stopped it.
The Jaksc reference places this firmly in the documented Austrian local issue catalogues, though survival rates for small-denomination Notgeld from rural municipalities vary considerably, with many print runs having been tiny and most notes redeemed and destroyed once coins returned to circulation.