Catalog
10 Heller Pottenstein
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Pottenstein (Market Town of Pottenstein) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Pottenstein GUTSCHEIN 10 Zehn Heller 10 Die Marktgemeinde Pottenstein a d. Triesting haftet für die Verbindlichkeit, diesen Schein bis zum 31. August 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen, mit ihrem beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Alfred Schano, Finanzreferent. Georg Klein, Bürgermeister. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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| Signature(s) | Alfred Schano and Georg Klein |
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Pottenstein is a small market town in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from around 1920. These hyperlocally issued notes were printed in tiny quantities, redeemable only within the issuing community, and had no legal tender status beyond that narrow geographic scope. The two signatories, Alfred Schano and Georg Klein, almost certainly held municipal office rather than banking roles.
The JPR reference places this within the Jaksch/Pick Austrian Notgeld cataloguing system. Quantities issued for individual Gemeinde notes of this type were rarely documented, which makes establishing true rarity a persistent problem.