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10 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Gallspach |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper, the obverse carries a vignette of a Baroque plague column (Pestsäule) with a standing female saint atop twin pillars, flanked by ornate scrollwork borders. A rectangular cartouche in the upper right bears the denomination '10 HELLER' in bold letterpress, while a ribbon scroll at the column base reads 'Pestzeiten Anno 1680 in Gallspach' and a curved banderole carries the inscription 'Von Pest Hunger und Krieg bewahre uns o Herr.' The issuing authority is identified in Gothic script as 'Notgeld des Marktes Gallspach O.Ö.' with the date 1920 at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 HELLER Notgeld des Marktes Gallspach O.Ö. Von Pest Hunger und Krieg bewahre uns o Herr. Pestzeiten Anno 1680 in Gallspach 1920 |
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Gallspach's 10 Heller Notgeld of 1920 belongs to the wave of locally issued emergency currency that flooded Austria following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. With the imperial Krone in freefall and the central authorities unable to supply adequate small change, thousands of Austrian municipalities took printing into their own hands — Gallspach among them. These village-level issues were typically produced by local printers with minimal technical infrastructure, which accounts for the considerable variation in paper quality and impression sharpness found across surviving examples of the series.
Jaksch catalogues this as 0219a-10, distinguishing it within what was likely a multi-denomination Gallspach set.