Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
80 Heller Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 80 Hellers (0.8) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper within a double-ruled rectangular border, the reverse carries an all-text legal declaration in Gothic script. An official circular municipality stamp of the Ortsgemeinde Pfarrkirchen is applied in violet ink at the upper left, serving as the authentication seal required for redemption. The printer's imprint 'Priezel, Steyr' appears in the bottom margin below the border. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Circular official municipality stamp of the Ortsgemeinde Pfarrkirchen applied in violet ink on the reverse; notes without this stamp were not valid for redemption. |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall is a small Upper Austrian parish community that, like hundreds of similar municipalities, issued its own emergency small change notes — Notgeld — in the years following World War One when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left a severe shortage of circulating coin. The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one, deliberately chosen so that two notes wouldn't sum to a round Krone figure without change, a common tactic to discourage hoarding.
Printed by Priezel of Steyr, the local press options were limited but functional. Authentication relied on an applied official stamp rather than any intaglio security element — straightforward for a note intended for purely local, short-term use.