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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Geboltskirchen (Municipality of Geboltskirchen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Rectangular note with a decorative border enclosing the central text panel. Crossed hammers appear in the four corners as ornamental devices, with the issue date printed in the upper border. The denomination and issuing authority are stated in two central text panels, flanked by authorising signatures below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a boldly executed black-and-white woodcut-style vignette occupying almost the entire field, enclosed within a rounded Art Nouveau border with foliate corner devices. The central scene shows two male agricultural labourers guiding a horse-drawn plough across a freshly turned furrow, with a female figure at the right foreground; a village with a church spire and rolling hills under a radiant sky appears in the middle distance to the right. A two-line verse inscription is set within a cartouche along the top edge. |
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Geboltskirchen is a small market commune in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld issued between 1919 and 1921 when the post-war collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small denominations effectively unavailable. Communes, businesses, and savings banks across Austria and Germany filled the vacuum themselves, printing their own emergency scrip with whatever local printing resources they had.
Most Austrian Notgeld of this period was redeemable in theory but worthless in practice once hyperinflation set in. Geboltskirchen's issue is among the more obscure municipal examples — no significant printing house, no collector series designed for the philatelic trade.