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10 Heller St. Marienkirchen an der Polenz
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Marienkirchen an der Polsenz (Municipality of Sankt Marienkirchen an der Polsenz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by two vertical ornamental borders of stylised floral and berry motifs in a Jugendstil manner. The central text field carries the issuing authority name in Gothic script, a faint green underprint vignette of a dove or bird at centre, and a multi-line legal obligation text dated 20/6 1920. At the foot, a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister (mayor) appears above an anti-counterfeiting warning. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed letterpress panoramic vignette of the town of St. Marienkirchen set against rolling hills and agricultural fields, with a church steeple prominent at centre among clustered rooftops and trees. A decorative border of small circular floral ornaments frames the composition on all four sides, with the inscription GEMEINDE ST. MARIENKIRCHEN along the top. The denomination tablet at the base reads 10 HELLER within an oval cartouche. |
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A typical Austrian Notgeld issue from the post-WWI period, when hundreds of small municipalities printed their own emergency small-change notes to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. The central government in Vienna had neither the capacity nor the political will to supply adequate coinage during the economic chaos of 1919–1921, so the burden fell to towns and villages — some with populations in the low hundreds — to fill the gap themselves.
Sankt Marienkirchen an der Polsenz is a small parish commune in Upper Austria. Its Notgeld issues are not widely documented in specialist literature, which makes condition and provenance worth noting for any serious Notgeld collection.