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10 Heller Pöchlarn
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0755II-10 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet on cream paper and is predominantly textual in layout. The main body carries a guarantee declaration in large spaced capital letters across horizontal bands, with a diagonal-line guilloche underprint throughout. A vertical column of Gothic-script text runs along the right margin, containing a literary or historical excerpt relating to Pöchlarn and the Nibelungen legend. |
| Reverse lettering | DIE STADTGEMEINDE POCHLARN HAFTET FÜR DIESE VERBINDLICHKEIT MIT IHREM GANZEN BEWEGLICHEN UND UNBEWEGLICHEN VERMÖGEN POCHLARN, AM 15. FEBER 1920 NACHAHMUNG DES SCHEINES WIRD GESETZLICH BESTRAFT |
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Pöchlarn is a small market town on the Danube in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities it issued its own Notgeld during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Stadtgemeinde series ran across multiple denominations, with this 10 Heller representing the lower end of local emergency purchasing power — useful for tram fares, bread, and small market transactions at a moment when the Habsburg monetary system had collapsed and the new Austrian Republic was still finding its feet.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0755II designates this as a second-type issue, implying an earlier series preceded it — a detail worth noting for type collectors distinguishing between the two emissions.