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10 Heller
| Issuer | Ortschaft Aich (Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green and black letterpress Notgeld on white paper, enclosed within a decorative floral and geometric border. The central vignette shows a worker operating a fruit press amid workshop equipment, printed as a light green underprint behind the bold black Fraktur legends. The denomination numeral '10' is set in large black type flanked by the word 'Heller' on both sides, with the issuer inscription 'Gutschein der Ortschaft Aich, O.-Öst.' below. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig bis 31. Oktober 1920. — Nachahmung wird bestraft! Heller 10 Heller Gutschein der Ortschaft Aich, O.-Öst. Die Ortschaft haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen. |
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Aich is a tiny rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller Notgeld is exactly what the postwar emergency money movement produced by the thousands across German-speaking Austria between 1919 and 1922. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small communities without small change — coins had vanished, hoarded or melted — so local councils printed their own. Aich's issue is among the more obscure, with survival numbers reflecting genuine small-community production runs rather than the collector-oriented print runs that larger towns were already cynically producing by 1920.