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10 Heller Pucking
| Issuer | Pucking, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0790-10 |
| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper in dark blue ink, the obverse carries a detailed rural vignette at centre showing a farmstead courtyard with cattle, sheep, and a rooster in the foreground, attended by a woman in traditional Austrian dress. A decorative ribbon banner at top reads 'Gemeinde' and a second banner at lower left reads 'Pucking', while the denomination '10 Heller' appears twice — in a belfry-style cartouche at upper right and in a further cartouche at lower left. Floral and bird motifs fill the margins, and an artist's signature is visible at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde 10 Heller Pucking |
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Pucking is a small village in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the postwar currency emergency rather than wait for Vienna to stabilize the supply of small change. The Langhammer printing house in Linz handled a significant share of regional municipal issues from this period — reliable, local, and cheap.
These hyperlocal 10 Heller pieces circulated within the issuing commune only, redeemable by the municipality itself. The practical ceiling on their geography is also why so many survived: once the emergency passed, unredeemed notes were simply kept as curiosities rather than spent.