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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Sankt Georgen am Reith |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress print on cream paper; upper left vignette of the local church amid foliage, beside a seated female figure in traditional dress holding a circular guilloche medallion bearing the numeral 10. Validity dates appear on a ribbon banner at lower left, with a legal redemption text panel at right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper reverse with a faint blue offset impression of the obverse design showing through; no printed design or text intentionally applied to this side. |
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Sankt Georgen am Reith is a small Lower Austrian market commune, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian municipalities after the First World War, when chronic small-coin shortages left local economies effectively paralyzed. The central government could not produce fractional coinage fast enough, so thousands of communes printed their own emergency paper. Jahn, operating out of Vienna's sixth district, was one of several commercial printers who handled enormous volumes of this municipal work during 1919–1920.
The Jaksc catalog — the specialist reference for Austrian Notgeld — assigns this note #0883, placing it within a well-documented but rarely glamorous series of low-denomination local issues that were withdrawn once the coinage situation stabilized.