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10 Heller St. Johann im Pongau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde St. Johann im Pongau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Dark-toned notgeld voucher with an ornate letterpress design on a light guilloche underprint. Two circular vignettes flank the central text panel: at left, a finely engraved bull's head facing right, and at right, a horse's head facing left, both rendered in detailed intaglio style. The denomination numeral '10' appears in decorative cartouches at each corner, and the issuer's name is set in a rectangular panel at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 10 Heller Die Marktgemeinde St. Johann i. Pg. haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargelde einzulösen u. hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt..... Nachahmung strafbar der 1. Gemeinderai. Der Bürgermeister: Giltig bis 31. Dez 1920 Marktgemeinde St. Johann i. Pg. |
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St. Johann im Pongau issued this 10 Heller note as part of the vast wave of Austrian Notgeld that flooded the country between 1919 and 1921, when postwar coin shortages left small transactions nearly impossible. Thousands of Austrian municipalities printed their own emergency fractional currency during this period — the Marktgemeinde here was following administrative necessity, not local initiative.
L. Pech's engraving credit is worth noting; local Notgeld was often jobbed out to small regional printers, and named engravers on pieces at this denomination are not universal across the series.