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80 Heller Kirchberg am Wagram
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Kirchberg am Wagram |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | Broinger |
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| Obverse description | Brown and gold Notgeld printed in letterpress on plain paper, with a dense geometric cross-and-oval guilloche border framing the entire composition. A central rectangular vignette presents a panoramic landscape view of Kirchberg am Wagram with a church steeple rising above rolling hills and vineyards, rendered in fine line engraving. Below the vignette, a bilingual legal text block in Gothic script states the voucher conditions and validity, flanked by the denomination numeral '80' in upper corners; an oval control seal is centred between the text columns, and facsimile signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister appear at the foot, with the artist's credit 'fec. Broinger' in the lower left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Marktgemeinde Kirchberg a. Wagram Gutschein über 80 Heller, giltig bis 31.12.1920: Diese unverzinslichen Gutscheine werden von der Marktgemeinde Kirchberg a. War. bis 31.12.1920 in Zahlung genommen u. in der Zeit vom 1.–31.12.1920 eingelöst. Die Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: |
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One of hundreds of Austrian municipal Notgeld issues that flooded the country between 1919 and 1922, this 80 Heller note from Kirchberg am Wagram was a local response to the chronic small-change shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. The Marktgemeinde printed its own scrip because coins had effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply gone with the old empire.
The designer credit to Broinger is worth noting. Locally designed Notgeld varies wildly in execution, and the JPR0439IIa series from Kirchberg shows more compositional care than much provincial output of the period.