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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bruck-Waasen (Municipality of Bruck-Waasen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress Notgeld note enclosed within an ornate vine-and-braid border surrounding a detailed topographic vignette of Bruck-Waasen, with the church, village buildings, the Ascha river, and an old bridge rendered in fine relief; a banner inscribed 'Prugg 1606' and a heraldic rooster appear at upper right. The denomination '10 Heller' is set in bold Fraktur script in the upper corners, with the central text panel dated 27 April 1920 bearing the municipal redemption pledge in Gothic script above a facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. A decorative verse reads 'Statt Silber, Gold und Edelstein, Nimm dieses Blatt, verwahr es fein' at lower left. |
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| Signature(s) | Jos. Wohlmair |
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Bruck-Waasen is a small Upper Austrian municipality, and this 1920 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian towns and villages following the economic collapse after the First World War. The central government could not supply adequate small change, so thousands of local authorities printed their own emergency scrip — briefly a legitimate necessity, then quickly a collector's craze that municipalities actively exploited for profit.
K. Dehlmaier's engraver credit is uncommon enough in the Notgeld catalogues to suggest a regional craftsman rather than one of the larger Vienna printing houses typically associated with the more elaborate issues.