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30 Heller Pöchlarn
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 93 × 54 mm |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress note with an elaborate architectural border framing a large panoramic vignette of the town of Pöchlarn viewed from across the Danube, signed 'Thonau fec.' below the central image. A scrolling ribbon at the top carries a Middle High German verse quotation from the Nibelungenlied referencing Bechelâren, flanked by a central medallion with a standing crowned figure. The denomination '30' appears in wreath-encircled roundels at lower left and right, with the guarantee and anti-counterfeiting legend along the base. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn a/d Donau VÖLKER: DER VIL SCHNELLE MIE SEINER VIDELN DAN GIE GEZOGEN EVR GOTELINDE STAN ER VIDELTE SVEZE DOENE VND SANG IRS NIV LIET: DA MIT NAM ER NLOP DOER VON BECHELÂREN SCHIED Pechlarn Thonau fec. Die Gemeinde haftet für die Einlösung mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen ✝ 1920 ✝ Nachahmung verboten. 30 |
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Pöchlarn is a small market town on the Danube in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small change — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage after the war. The Habsburg currency system had collapsed under wartime inflation, and the new Republic lacked both the metal and the institutional capacity to restock circulation quickly enough. Local councils filled the gap themselves.
The designer credited as Seliger produced work for several Lower Austrian municipal issues during this period. Whether this reflects a single local artist or a commercial supplier working across multiple commissions is not firmly established.