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60 Heller Pichl bei Windischgarsten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pichl bei Windischgarsten (Municipality of Pichl bei Windischgarsten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 60 Hellers (0.6) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brownish-red on cream paper, the obverse is divided into two panels. The left panel carries a circular vignette with a hand-engraved landscape scene of a rocky gorge with a wooden footbridge over a mountain stream, framed by ornamental scrollwork at the top corners. The right panel bears the denomination '60 HELER 60' in large circles at the top and the issuer inscription in bold letterpress text across the centre and lower portion, with a geometric interlaced border ornament at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | G. Schröckenfux (Gemeindeausschuss) and Michael Mayr (Bürgermeister) |
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One of hundreds of Austrian Notgeld issues that flooded the market after the collapse of the Habsburg economy left small municipalities starved of small change. Pichl bei Windischgarsten is a village in Upper Austria's Pyhrn-Priel region, and like most Gemeinden of its size, it turned to local printers rather than any central authority. Jos. Feichtingers Erben in Linz handled a substantial volume of these municipal emergency issues across Upper Austria, making them one of the more prolific regional printers of the type.
The signature of Michael Mayr as Bürgermeister is worth noting — he served simultaneously as Austrian Federal Chancellor from 1920 to 1921, an unusual circumstance that places this village scrip in direct contact with national politics.