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10 Heller Prägarten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Prägarten (Municipality of Prägarten) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on grey paper in a Gothic-influenced letterpress style, evoking the appearance of an old parchment document. To the left, an ornate municipal seal is suspended by a twisted cord beneath an elaborate illuminated initial capital, while the issuer's name 'Die Gemeinde Prägarten' appears in bold Gothic blackletter script to the right. The denomination 'zehn 10 Heller' is stated below in mixed Gothic and numeral type, followed by the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature, with the printer's imprint 'Emil Priehal, Steyr' at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Gemeinde Prägarten zahlt für diesen Schein zehn 10 Heller Der Bürgermeister: |
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Prägarten is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and like hundreds of similar communities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Heller denominations were the most practical stopgap: small change had effectively vanished from circulation by 1919, hoarded or melted, and local governments filled the gap themselves rather than wait for Vienna.
Emil Priehal in Steyr handled a significant volume of municipal Notgeld commissions across Upper Austria. The JPR reference series covers an extensive range of Prägarten issues, and the "d" suffix on this Pick number indicates it belongs to a subseries — likely distinguished by a date, color variant, or overprint from otherwise identical pieces in the same run.