Catalog
10 Heller Pürbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pürbach (Municipality of Pürbach) |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | B 10 | Notgeld der Gemeinde Pürbach | 10 Nieder-Oesterreich. Heller | 10 | Heller Die Gemeinde Pürbach löst diesen Schein bis 31. Dezember 1920 mit staatlichem Papiergelde ein. Nachahmung ist strafbar. Scheine ohne Feuchtstempel des Gemeindeamtes sind ungültig. J. Maier, 2. Gemeinderat. | E. Hoffmann, Bürgermeister. | J. Kuben, Vizebürgermeister. 10 | 10 |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in the same dark red ink on cream paper, is framed at the top and bottom by decorative Art Nouveau-style foliate ornamental borders. The central field carries a four-line verse in Upper Austrian dialect printed in a period Gothic typeface, with a faint mirror-image impression of the obverse text visible as a show-through watermark effect. A circular official municipality dry stamp is impressed at the right margin. |
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Pürbach is a small municipality in Lower Austria, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian communes during and immediately after World War One, when coin shortages made small-denomination change effectively unavailable. The issuing authority here is the local council itself — Bürgermeister Hoffmann and Vizebürgermeister Kuben signing alongside a second councillor was the bare minimum of civic authority required to give such notes any credibility with local shopkeepers.
The Jaksc catalogue remains the primary reference for Austrian municipal Notgeld of this type, and the JPR0793 series suggests Pürbach issued across multiple denominations. Whether this 10 Heller circulated beyond the village boundary is doubtful.