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70 Heller Pottenbrunn
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pottenbrunn (Municipality of Pottenbrunn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset Notgeld coupon printed in brown on cream paper with an overall light guilloche underprint. A vertical left panel carries the denomination "70 Heller" in bold rotated lettering bordered by a dotted rule frame, while the main field bears the issuer title "Gutschein der Gemeinde Pottenbrunn" above the spelled-out value "Siebzig Heller" flanked by ornamental rosettes. A large pale numeral "70" underprint occupies the centre, with the date "JUNI 1920" and the printed facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 70 Heller GEMEINDE POTTENBRUNN Die Gemeinde Pottenbrunn haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit. Dieser Kassenschein ist unverzinslich und verliert seine Gültigkeit mit 31. Dezember 1920. Druck Gutenberg St. Pölten |
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Pottenbrunn is a small market town in Lower Austria, and this 70 Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years — the Notgeld period, roughly 1918–1921, during which hundreds of municipalities printed their own emergency fractional currency because the central government simply could not supply enough coin. The Gutenberg Druckerei in nearby St. Pölten handled a substantial volume of these local commissions across the region.
Three signatories authenticate the issue: the Bürgermeister, the Vizebürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat — unusually full civic endorsement for a note of this denomination.