Catalog
10 Heller St. Johann im Pongau
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei R. Holzer, St. Johann im Pongau |
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| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper with a fine guilloche underprint, the note bears the issuer name 'St. Johann im Pongau' in large blackletter script across the upper field, surmounted by the printer's imprint 'Buchdruckerei' in smaller type. The denomination '10' appears in bold numerals at left and right, with the word 'Heller' below each, flanking the central text 'Gutschein' in ornate blackletter. A red heraldic vignette — an armorial device with foliate mantling — is overprinted at centre, above a multi-line liability clause in blackletter script. A decorative border of repeating foliate and geometric ornaments frames the entire note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Buchdruckerei St. Johann im Pongau 10 Gutschein 10 Heller Heller Die Buchdruckerei R. Holzer in St. Johann i. P. haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen u. unbeweglichen Vermögen. |
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St. Johann im Pongau is a market town in Salzburg province, and this 10 Heller note is a Notgeld issue — emergency small-change scrip produced locally to address the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria during and after the First World War. The issuer and the printer are the same entity: R. Holzer's printing house, which means this note was designed, produced, and presumably distributed by a single local commercial printer with no intermediary banking authority involved.
That arrangement was not unusual for Austrian Notgeld, but it does raise questions about backing and redemption that were never formally resolved for many such issues.