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10 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Aspach (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Purple letterpress printing on plain paper stock, with the central denomination "10 Heller" set within a simple decorative border frame. The full issuer title appears as a legend encircling the denomination, identifying the voucher as a municipal issue of the Gemeinde Aspach. |
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| Signature(s) | Kakklinger and Litzlbauer |
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Aspach is a small municipality in the Innviertel district — the region Austria only recovered from Bavaria in 1779. This 10 Heller Notgeld dates from the postwar emergency currency period, when the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left municipalities, businesses, and cooperatives across Austria issuing their own small-denomination scrip to fill an acute coin shortage. The central government essentially sanctioned the chaos by looking the other way.
The designer credit "L. Daringen" is uncommon in documented Notgeld records, which suggests local commissioning rather than one of the specialist printers who dominated the mass-produced Notgeld trade by 1920.