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10 Heller Taufkirchen an der Pram
| Issuer | Gemeinde Taufkirchen an der Pram (Municipality of Taufkirchen an der Pram) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig bis 31/12.1920. Einlösungstermin vom 15./12 bis 31./12 1920 bei der Gemeindekasse Taufkirchen. GUTSCHEIN D. GEMEINDE TAUFKIRCHEN A. D. PR. Zehn Heller Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Reverse description | The left half of the note is occupied by a finely engraved vignette of the Taufkirchen church and its surroundings, with a steepled tower rising above riverside buildings and foliage rendered in detailed letterpress line work. To the upper right, the issuer title appears in Gothic script above the denomination 'Zehn Heller' in large decorative lettering. Below, a text block states the total authorised issue amount and the municipality's liability, followed by two manuscript facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister. A numeral '10' in a framed box occupies the lower left corner. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this type was issued to address the acute small-coin shortage that persisted well after the First World War — the imperial coinage system had collapsed, and the new Republic was slow to produce subsidiary currency in sufficient volume. Taufkirchen an der Pram is a small Upper Austrian market town, and like hundreds of comparable municipalities it issued its own emergency fractional notes in 1920 under informal but widely tolerated arrangements with regional authorities.
These hyper-local issues were often printed in very small quantities by provincial jobbing printers, which makes survival rates genuinely uneven rather than uniformly scarce.