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10 Heller St. Pölten
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde St. Pölten (City Municipality of St. Pölten) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 68 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde St. Pölten über 10 HELLER Die Gemeinde St. Pölten haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. St. Pölten, 24. Dezember 1919. Der Vizebürgermeister: der Bürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain cream paper and carries only typeset text in Gothic blackletter script, without any vignette or ornamental border. The heading 'Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde St. Pölten über 10 Heller.' appears at the top, followed by a paragraph explaining the issue purpose — to alleviate the small-change shortage — stating that the notes are non-interest-bearing, accepted by the municipality until 30 June 1920 and redeemable in legal tender between 1 and 30 June 1920. A final line reads 'Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft.' |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this period exists in enormous quantity, but St. Pölten's 1919 issues have a specific administrative wrinkle worth noting: St. Pölten did not become the official capital of Lower Austria until 1986, yet it was already functioning as the dominant administrative city in the region in 1919 — which partly explains why its municipal authority was among the more organizationally capable issuers of emergency coinage in the province during the postwar coinage shortage.
The acute small-coin shortage that drove notgeld production across Austria in 1919 stemmed directly from metal hoarding and the collapse of Habsburg imperial supply chains after November 1918.