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80 Heller Pichl bei Windischgarsten, Blue issue
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pichl bei Windischgarsten (Municipality of Pichl bei Windischgarsten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE PICHL BEI WINDISCHGARSTEN 80 HELLER |
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| Signature(s) | G. Schröckenfux (Gemeindeausschuss) and Michael Mayr (Bürgermeister) |
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Pichl bei Windischgarsten is a small alpine parish in Upper Austria — the kind of community that would normally never appear in a banknote catalog. It does so here because of the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar period, prompting thousands of municipalities to print their own low-denomination Notgeld under provisions that the central authorities largely tolerated rather than formally sanctioned. The printer, Jos. Feichtingers Erben of Linz, handled a considerable volume of this regional emergency paper across Upper Austria.
Michael Mayr, whose signature appears as Bürgermeister, was simultaneously serving as Austrian Federal Chancellor from 1920 to 1921 — an unusual distinction for the signatory of an 80-Heller parish note.