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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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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | The face is divided into two vertical panels enclosed within a decorative border: the left panel carries a circular vignette of an alpine landscape with rocky cliffs, dense foliage, and a timber structure beside a stream, framed by Art Nouveau scrollwork at the upper corners. The right panel presents the denomination in two circular cartouches reading '60' at upper left and right with 'HELER' between them, surmounted by the issuer inscription in bold letterpress and terminating in a geometric interlace border at the foot. The overall composition reflects the characteristic Notgeld aesthetic of the early 1920s, combining regional pictorial imagery with functional typographic layout. |
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| Reverse description | The back is enclosed within an elaborate Art Nouveau border of geometric and foliate ornaments with decorative column motifs at the four corners, the central field occupied entirely by the redemption text in letterpress, citing the municipal council resolution of 30 April 1920 and the redemption deadline of 31 December 1920, with the place and date of issue below. Two facsimile signatures appear at the foot alongside their official titles, followed by an anti-counterfeiting warning in capital letters. The designer and printer attributions are inscribed in small type along the lower margin. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type was necessitated by the acute small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monetary system after 1918 — metal coinage had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished, and the new republic was in no position to supply rural municipalities with sufficient specie. Pichl bei Windischgarsten, a village in the Upper Austrian Alps, issued its own emergency heller notes under this arrangement, a practice that became widespread across thousands of Austrian communities between 1919 and 1921.
The Weeser-Krell attribution is notable — Friedrich Weeser-Krell designed Notgeld for numerous Upper Austrian municipalities through Jos. Feichtingers Erben, giving these local emissions a coherent regional aesthetic identity. Michael Mayr, one of the signatories here, was at the time serving as Austrian Federal Chancellor, which makes his appearance on a village-level emergency note an unusual circumstance worth remarking on.