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80 Heller Pressbaum
| Issuer | Gemeinde Pressbaum (Municipality of Pressbaum) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark carmine-rose on a pink guilloche underprint, the obverse centres on an oval vignette of the Pressbaum townscape with a prominent church steeple set against wooded hills. The denomination '80' appears in large numerals within ornate cartouches at left and right, each surrounded by repeated 'HELLER' lettering. The heading 'GUTSCHEIN / DER GEMEINDE PRESSBAUM' appears at top, with 'ACHTZIG HELLER' in bold letters above the central vignette, and three manuscript signatures above the issue date 'PRESSBAUM, AM 25. MAI 1920' along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE PRESSBAUM. Die Gemeinde Preßbaum gibt Kassenscheine im Gesamtbetrag von 100.000 Kronen aus. – Dieselben sind unverzinslich, werden von der Gemeinde bis 30. Juni 1921 in Zahlung genommen und in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Juli 1921 in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. |
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Pressbaum is a small market town in Lower Austria, west of Vienna along the Westbahn line. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it issued its own Notgeld to address the chronic small-change shortage that persisted well into the post-war years — the central currency had effectively collapsed as a practical medium for everyday transactions, and towns were left to fill the gap themselves.
The 80 Heller denomination is among the more unusual values chosen by local issuers, who generally had latitude to print whatever amounts they judged practical for local trade.