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10 Heller Pischelsdorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pischelsdorf (Municipality of Pischelsdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in olive-green on cream paper and enclosed within a decorative border of small square ornamental units. The issuer's name 'Gemeinde Pischelsdorf' appears in bold script lettering at the top, above a central landscape vignette rendered in a fine woodcut or engraving style, showing a panoramic view of the village with a church tower, farmsteads, rolling fields, and billowing clouds. Below the vignette, a three-line authorization text in German records the municipal council resolution of 19 July 1920, followed by the Bürgermeister's signature line reading 'FRANZ PREISER m. p.', with the printer's imprint 'Auer-Nobauer' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black and olive-green on cream paper, enclosed within the same square-ornament border as the obverse. The denomination '10 Heller' is set in large bold type across the upper portion, beneath which a bold woodcut-style vignette occupies the centre, showing a striding male sower casting seed across a ploughed field, with a village church visible in the middle distance. A two-sentence cautionary text in German warns that the expiry of the note's validity will be publicly announced and that counterfeiting is punishable by law, with the printer's imprint 'Buchdruckerei Jof. Moser, Braunau am Inn' at the foot. |
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Pischelsdorf's 10 Heller notgeld was one of thousands of small-denomination emergency issues produced by Austrian municipalities after the First World War, when coin shortages made even the most modest transactions difficult. The printer, Josef Moser of Braunau am Inn, handled similar commissions for numerous local communities in the Inn Valley region during this period — a cottage industry of fiscal necessity.
Franz Preiser's signature as authorizing official is the only individual record most of these village-level issues leave behind.