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80 Heller Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issued on uncoloured paper with a light green underprint, printed in green. The central vignette presents a line-engraved view of the market square of Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis, with the parish church tower rising above the surrounding buildings and small figures in the foreground; flanking the central scene are two oval vignettes enclosed in ornamental scroll borders, the left captioned 'Kirche.' and the right 'Ameisbergwarte.' The denomination '80 Heller' appears in bold numerals at lower left and lower right, with the issuer inscription 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Pfarrkirchen i.M.' running across the lower margin in Gothic lettering and the printer's imprint 'JOS. WALTL LINZ' at the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on plain white paper within a chain-link rectangular border. The upper portion carries the heading 'Aus dem Mühlviertt-Märl von N. Hanrieder' followed by two stanzas of Upper Austrian dialect verse in roman type. The lower portion contains the redemption text in mixed Gothic and roman lettering, stating that the Municipality of Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis guarantees to redeem the note in legal tender one month after announcement, with a counterfeiting warning at lower left and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature 'Stöllinger' at lower right. |
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Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis is a small Upper Austrian market commune, and this 80-Heller Notgeld is among the more arithmetically awkward denominations produced during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria from around 1919. The 80-Heller value sits outside the standard 10/20/50 ladder, suggesting local authorities were trying to fill a very specific gap in everyday transactions — probably change for the 1-Krone note.
Jos. Waltl of Linz was a regional commercial printer, not a security press, which is exactly what the Notgeld system required: fast, cheap, local.