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10 Heller Traunkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Traunkirchen (Municipality of Traunkirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ZEHN HELLER 10 NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE TRAUNKIRCHEN |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper in the same flat letterpress woodcut style as the obverse. The note face is dominated by bold hand-lettered text reading 'GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE TRAUNKIRCHEN', below which a redemption clause and anti-counterfeiting warning are set in smaller type. The date 'TRAUNKIRCHEN, AM 1. JUNI 1920' appears on a ruled line, followed by the mayor's manuscript signature; flanking side panels carry stylised landscape vignettes in a segmented decorative border, with the numeral '10' repeated at each corner and 'ZEHN HELLER' in bold lettering at top and bottom. |
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Traunkirchen is a lakeside parish in Upper Austria with a permanent population that barely exceeded a few hundred in 1920. Its decision to issue notgeld that year was entirely practical — small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation across Austria following wartime hoarding and postwar monetary chaos, and even the smallest commercial transactions had ground to a halt without anything to make change.
The Salzkammergut-Druckerei in Gmunden handled notgeld production for several Salzkammergut municipalities during this period, which kept costs down through shared printing runs. The JPR1081 series for Traunkirchen is among the more modestly documented Austrian local issues.