Catalog
10 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Lausa bei Losenstein |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large woodcut-style vignette of a dense Alpine forest landscape, with conifers, deciduous trees, and rocky outcroppings rendered in dark brown letterpress on a light green textured paper. The inscription "Gutschein der" appears in decorative script within an ornamental cartouche at the upper portion of the vignette. The denomination "10" and "Heller" flank the lower edge within shield-shaped cartouches, above a banner reading "Ortsgemeinde Lausa b. Losenstein" in flowing Kurrent script. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der / 10 / Ortsgemeinde Lausa b. Losenstein / Heller |
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Lausa bei Losenstein is a small parish in Upper Austria, and this Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that swept Austria in 1920–1921 following the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system. Hundreds of rural municipalities — Gemeinden — printed their own Notgeld when coins simply stopped circulating in sufficient quantity. Most were issued in tiny print runs, redeemed locally within months, and never made it into broader circulation.
Parish-level Austrian Notgeld of this type was typically printed by regional jobbing printers, often on whatever paper stock was available.