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60 Heller Pöchlarn
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 60 Hellers (0.6) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown, the reverse carries a wide panoramic vignette of the town of Pöchlarn viewed from across the Danube, captioned 'Pechlarn', with the artist's imprint 'Thonau ft.' below. A scroll banner wrapping the upper portion bears a Middle High German verse passage from the Nibelungenlied, framing a central oval cartouche with a standing crowned figure. Denomination medallions '60' flanked by laurel sprays appear at lower left and right, with the heading 'Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn a/d. Donau' at top and the guarantee text 'Die Gemeinde haftet für die Einlösung mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen + 1920 + Nachahmung verboten' along the bottom. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn a/d. Donau DER VIL SCHNELLE MIT VOEKER DER SANE VND GEZOGEN DAN GIE SI NER VIDELN EVR GOTELINDE STAN ER VIDELTE SVEZE DOENE IR SINT LIET DA MIT NAM ER NILOP DO ER VON BECHELAREN SCHIED Pechlarn 16 77 60 60 Die Gemeinde haftet für die Einlösung mit ihrem ganzen Vermögen + 1920 + Nachahmung verboten Thonau ft. |
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Pöchlarn is a small market town on the Danube in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in the immediate postwar years, it was forced to print its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to compensate for a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage. The Habsburg monetary system had essentially dissolved alongside the empire, and the new Austrian republic could not produce fractional coin fast enough to meet everyday retail demand.
The split design credits — Seliger on the obverse, Thonau on the reverse — suggest the town commissioned two local artists rather than contracting a single commercial printer, which was unusual even for municipal Notgeld of this period.