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10 Heller Pötting
| Issuer | Pötting, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on plain paper within a thin rectangular border, the obverse presents a line-engraved vignette of a village street scene with a tall-spired church tower and flanking buildings rendered in fine cross-hatching at left, while the denomination panel reading '10 Heller 10' within a dotted border and a large ornamental initial letter occupy the right portion beneath the issuing authority heading. A violet rectangular municipality stamp is applied to the lower left of the vignette. A facsimile Bürgermeister signature in manuscript style appears below the text block. |
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| Protection description | Violet rectangular municipality stamp reading 'Gemeinde-Vorstehung Oftering pol. Bez. Linz.' applied to the obverse; notes without this stamp are declared invalid. |
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Pötting is a tiny Upper Austrian village — the kind of issuer that rarely appears in mainstream collections. This note is one of hundreds of Austrian Notgeld pieces produced during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War, when municipalities, merchants, and even individual businesses printed their own emergency pfennig-denomination scrip to keep local commerce moving. The Reich's metal coinage had largely vanished from circulation by 1919–1920, hoarded or melted.
The municipality stamp as the sole security feature is typical of the smallest rural issuers, who had no access to specialist printers and authenticated notes with whatever official rubber stamp the village office possessed.