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10 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aflenz (Market Town of Aflenz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green, the reverse is dominated by a central vignette of the Aflenz parish church with its prominent steeple and surrounding trees rendered in a fine letterpress scenic style. The denomination inscription "Gutschein über 10 Heller der Marktgemeinde Aflenz" runs vertically along the left margin in blackletter script, while "Heller 10 Heller" is printed vertically along the right margin. An ornamental border composed of repeating dot-and-scroll motifs and rows of "X" characters frames the entire composition. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein über 10 Heller der Marktgemeinde Aflenz Heller 10 Heller |
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Aflenz is a small market town in upper Styria, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the sprawling phenomenon of Austrian Notgeld — emergency small-change scrip issued by municipalities, businesses, and institutions between roughly 1919 and 1921 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. The postwar Austrian state was in no position to supply coinage, so the burden fell to local authorities, some of whom issued notes of genuine civic ambition and others that were barely more than stamped slips.
The Jaksc catalog reference places this within the documented Aflenz series, which is sparse enough that individual surviving examples carry real scarcity value relative to better-known Viennese issues.