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10 Heller Pram
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pram (Municipality of Pram) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents an Art Nouveau decorative border of interlaced floral and foliate scrollwork framing the entire note. The denomination '10 Heller' is set at the top centre, followed by the title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Pram-Oesterreich ob der Enns' in Gothic blackletter script. The central vignette is a bird's-eye panoramic view of the market town of Pram as recorded in 1777, rendered in fine line engraving, with a four-line German verse inscription to the upper left of the vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set within an Art Nouveau scrollwork border with ornate corner flourishes, the entire text area executed in calligraphic Gothic blackletter script. A four-line poetic verse in German occupies the upper portion, followed by the large denomination legend 'Gutschein über 10 Heller der Gemeinde Pram-Oesterreich ob der Enns'. The lower half contains the legal and redemption text, the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister (mayor), and a countersignature line. |
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Gemeinde Pram is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar communities in the immediate postwar years, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to fill the void left by the near-total disappearance of metal coinage. The economic disruption following Austria-Hungary's collapse in 1918 made this kind of hyper-local scrip a practical necessity rather than a novelty.
The Jaksch reference places this squarely within the documented Upper Austrian municipal issues. At 10 Heller, this is the lowest practical denomination a village could usefully issue — anything smaller would have been more trouble to administer than it was worth.