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10 Heller Pottenstein
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Pottenstein (Market Town of Pottenstein) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0773a-10 |
| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld voucher printed in dark red on pale green paper, enclosed within a plain rectangular border. The upper panel carries the issuer's name in Gothic (Fraktur) script above the word GUTSCHEIN flanked by ornamental dots, with small circular punch-cancel positions at each upper corner. The central denomination band displays the numeral '10' at left and right flanking the words 'Zehn Heller' in bold Gothic type, below which a legal-guarantee text and two facsimile signatures with titles appear. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only a faint blind impression of the obverse text visible through the thin paper stock, enclosed by the same single rectangular border line as the face. The plain pale green surface bears no additional design, text, or security elements. |
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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.