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20 Heller Pergkirchen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pergkirchen (Municipality of Pergkirchen) |
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| In circulation to | 31 March 1921 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of the Ruine Mitterberg, dated 1673, rendered in fine line engraving and framed by a decorative border with foliate ornamentation. The denomination numeral '20' appears in bold Gothic script in the upper corners, with the issuer inscription 'Pergkirchen, Ob.Öst.' in a panel across the top. Text columns flanking the vignette identify the issuing municipality, the validity date of 31 March 1921, and bear the facsimile signatures of the Bürgermeister and two Gemeinderäte, alongside a heraldic shield at the lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a central vignette of Schloss Auhof, identified by a caption below rendered in Gothic letterpress, showing the castle amid open fields under a clouded sky with fine line shading. The denomination '20' is repeated in the upper corners in bold Gothic numerals, with 'Pergkirchen, O.Ö.' inscribed across the top panel. Flanking text columns reiterate the Gutschein issuer details, the validity date, and carry facsimile signatures of the municipal authorities, with the anti-counterfeiting notice 'Nachahmung strafbar' included in the left column. |
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Pergkirchen is a small parish commune in Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to printing its own Heller-denomination Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Austrian government's failure to maintain small-denomination metallic currency in circulation between roughly 1916 and 1921 forced even the most obscure rural communes to become, briefly, issuers of emergency money.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0732-20 places this squarely within the documented Upper Austrian series, but Pergkirchen issues are not commonly encountered — small-run rural Notgeld frequently saw genuine local circulation rather than being printed for collector sale, which accelerated wear and attrition.