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80 Heller Pöchlarn
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 80 Hellers (0.8) |
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| Obverse lettering | Achtzig-Heller Kassen-Schein 80 Stadtgemeinde Pöchlarn im Nibelungengau Nur gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920 Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: Pöchlarn, 15. Feber 1920 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in pale rose-pink on buff paper and carries the guarantee text in large spaced letterpress across the main field, with an additional column of smaller Gothic-script text printed vertically along the right margin, and a fine hatched underprint covering the entire surface as a rudimentary security device. |
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Pöchlarn is a small market town on the south bank of the Danube in Lower Austria, and this 80 Heller Notgeld emerges from the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria in the immediate postwar years. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities scrambling to produce their own emergency small-denomination scrip, and hundreds of Austrian towns did exactly that between 1919 and 1922.
The 80 Heller denomination is an odd one — most series clustered around 10, 20, 50, and 75 Heller — which suggests Pöchlarn either had a specific local pricing need or was filling gaps left by an earlier issue.