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10 Heller Pöggstall
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pöggstall (Municipality of Pöggstall) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0756Ia-10 |
| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured note with a simple typeset layout enclosed within a single-rule rectangular border. The denomination '10' appears in large bold numerals on the left margin, flanked by the word 'Heller' above and below, with a faint ochre underprint numeral visible behind the central text block. The main field carries a German-language legal obligation text in letterpress, dated 'Pöggstall, am 18. März 1920', with three facsimile signatures below; the heading 'NOTGELD FÜR PÖGGSTALL.' is set in bold capitals across the top, and an anti-counterfeiting warning appears along the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD FÜR PÖGGSTALL. Heller 10 Die Gefertigten haften für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen und haben hiefür ein eigenes Deckungskapital bei der Gemeinde hinterlegt. Das Ende der Giltigkeitsdauer wird 4 Wochen vorher öffentlich verlautbart werden. Pöggstall, am 18. März 1920. K. Kramler. A. Lump. F. Mück. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Pöggstall is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this Heller note is a product of the postwar Notgeld wave that swept through Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. With the old imperial monetary system in collapse and small-denomination coinage virtually absent from circulation, hundreds of towns — including ones this size — were legally permitted to issue their own emergency paper. Printed locally by Siegel rather than farmed out to Vienna or Graz, the production reflects genuine provincial self-sufficiency rather than a coordinated official program.
Three signatories authenticate the note, an unusual number for a denomination this minor.