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10 Heller Poysdorf
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Poysdorf (Market Town of Poysdorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0776a-10 |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein DER MARKTGEMEINDE 10 Heller 10 Heller POYSDORF Die Gemeinde Poysdorf haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen 2. Mai 1920 Der Vizebürgermeister Der Bürgermeisters Der Gemeinderat Der Gemeindekassier |
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| Reverse lettering | In Poysdorf liegt manch' Tropfen Wein, Doch mangelt es am Gelde klein; Drum schicken wir dies Blättchen aus, Aus vielen wird ein Gläschen draus. Zur Linderung der Kleingeldnot gibt die Gemeinde Poysdorf unverzinsliche Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 100.000 Kronen aus. Sie werden von der Gemeinde Poysdorf bis 31. Dezember 1920 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 16. bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Poysdorf is a small wine-producing market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it issued emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — in the early 1920s when the post-war coinage shortage made everyday transactions genuinely difficult. The Austrian state offered no practical solution at the denominational level where market stalls and bakeries actually operated, so local authorities filled the gap themselves.
The JPR0776a series from Poysdorf is among the more modestly produced Lower Austrian issues — no elaborate regional allegory, no satirical cartouche. Collector demand for this specific denomination is narrower than for the pictorial series from larger towns, which keeps pricing grounded.