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10 Heller
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aigen (Market Town of Aigen, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents the plain tan cardboard substrate with no applied design elements. A vertical row of small round perforations near the right margin delineates the detachable control stub, and faint ink strike-through from the obverse letterpress printing is visible across the surface. |
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| Protection description | A vertical line of small round perforations near the right edge of the note separates a detachable control stub, serving as a basic anti-duplication measure. |
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Aigen im Mühlkreis was one of hundreds of Austrian municipalities that issued small-denomination cardboard Notgeld in the early 1920s when coin shortages made everyday transactions nearly impossible. The post-WWI collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments to fill the gap themselves, and the result was a chaotic patchwork of hyper-local emergency scrip — some professionally printed, others barely distinguishable from craft projects. This note falls squarely in that municipal self-help tradition.
The perforation as the sole security feature reflects the limited means available to a small Upper Austrian Marktgemeinde. Fr. Pfleger's signature would have been applied as a validation of local authority rather than any banking function.