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40 Heller Pressbaum
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pressbaum (Municipality of Pressbaum) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 40 Hellers (0.4) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue and brown on white paper, the obverse is framed by an ornate Art Nouveau border. A central vignette presents a panoramic townscape of Pressbaum with a prominent church spire and surrounding wooded hills, enclosed within a decorative cartouche. The denomination '40' appears in circular guilloche medallions at left and right, with the title 'GUTSCHEIN / DER GEMEINDE PRESSBAUM' at the top and 'VIERZIG HELLER' on a curved banner; the issue date 'PRESSBAUM, AM 25. MAI 1920' and three manuscript signatures appear at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE PRESSBAUM VIERZIG HELLER 40 HELLER PRESSBAUM, AM 25. MAI 1920. Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: Für das Finanzkomité: |
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Pressbaum is a small town west of Vienna in Lower Austria, and its municipal notgeld program was typical of hundreds of similar efforts that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1922. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system after 1918 left local governments without adequate coin, and issuing small-denomination paper was a practical — and legally tolerated — stop-gap. The 40 Heller denomination places this note squarely in everyday transaction territory: tram fares, bread, minor market purchases.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0784a suffix suggests at least one variant exists within the Pressbaum series, worth checking against paper stock or serial characteristics.