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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Gainfarn (Municipality of Gainfarn) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Gainfarn Zehn Heller 10 Die Gemeinde Gainfarn haftet für die Einlösung dieses Gutscheines in gesetzlichem Bargelde. Einlöse-Termin 31. Dezemb. 1920. ROBERT LEITNER |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green on cream paper within a simple rectangular border, centred on a heraldic vignette of the municipal coat of arms of Gainfarn — a diagonally bisected shield with a castle tower in the upper half and a church in the lower, enclosed within a laurel wreath surmounted by a crown — over which a circular blue official stamp of the Bürgermeisteramt, Bezirk Baden, Gainfarn is applied. A two-column text in German script at left records the municipal council resolution of 26 May 1920 authorising the issue, while a partial printed legend at upper right references the total issue amount in Kronen and confirms legal tender backing. A diagonal blue manuscript annotation 'z. Ausgabe' appears at lower left. |
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Gainfarn was a small spa village in Lower Austria, best known for its sulfur springs rather than its finances. Like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it was forced to print its own emergency small change — Notgeld — because the postwar collapse of the Habsburg monetary system had caused metal coinage to vanish almost entirely from circulation. Robert Leitner was a local printer, almost certainly based in the region, producing these notes for several nearby communities during the same period.
Ten Heller was among the lowest denominations issued in the Notgeld series, reflecting just how severe the small-coin shortage had become.