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10 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Weissenstein an der Drau (Federal State of Carinthia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress on cream paper with an elaborate foliate scroll border enclosing the text. Two standing male figures in folk costume flank the design at left and right, each on a decorative cartouche bearing numerals. The denomination "Zehn Heller" is rendered in ornate Gothic script at centre, with validity and anti-counterfeiting notices below, and manuscript signatures of the municipal councillor and mayor at foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Weissenstein a.d. Kärnten. Zehn Heller Nachahmungsverbot. Giltig bis 30. 10. 1920. Der 1. Gemeinderat: Der Bürgermeister: |
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Weissenstein an der Drau — a small Carinthian market town on the Drau river — issued this Heller note in 1920 under the municipal emergency currency scheme that proliferated across the former Habsburg territories after the imperial monetary system collapsed. These Carinthian Notgeld issues were not mere stopgaps; Carinthia was actively contested between Austrian and Yugoslav forces in 1919–1920, and local administrations were printing their own money while the province's political status remained unresolved.
Gutenberghaus in Klagenfurt was the workhorse printer for dozens of these small Carinthian municipal issues, and the W. Benedikt design credit is one of the few things that distinguishes this particular note from the broader run.