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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 description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on cream paper, with a central vignette of the St. Pölten town hall (Rathaus) framed by two large ornate rosette medallions each bearing the denomination numeral '10' over the word 'HELLER'. The heading 'Kassenschein der Stadtgemeinde St. Pölten' appears in Gothic blackletter script across the top, with the word 'über' beneath. Below the central vignette, a four-line guarantee text in Gothic script reads 'Die Gemeinde St. Pölten haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen', dated 'St. Pölten, 24. Dezember 1919', with three facsimile signature lines for the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. |
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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: |
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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.