Catalog
10 Heller
| Issuer | Herzogenburg, Market Town of |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark blue on plain buff paper, enclosed within a dotted border with stylised geometric ornaments at regular intervals along the inner frame. A central text block in Gothic blackletter script carries the redemption notice, flanked on each side by a column of small diamond-shaped decorative motifs. The printer's name appears at the top and the issuing address at the bottom, both in blackletter type. |
| Reverse lettering | Buchdruckerei G. m. b. H. Dieser Gutschein wird zur Behebung des Kleingeldmangels im Kundenverkehr ausgegeben und für vorne angegebenen Betrag eingelöst. Herzogenburg, Kremserstr. |
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Herzogenburg's 10 Heller Notgeld was among thousands of small-denomination emergency issues that flooded Austria between 1914 and the early 1920s, as coin shortages driven by wartime metal requisitioning left municipalities scrambling to keep petty commerce functional. Market towns like Herzogenburg had no minting capability, so local print shops stepped in — the Buchdruckerei G.m.b.H. being exactly the kind of regional commercial printer pressed into quasi-monetary service.
These hyper-local issues were redeemable only within the issuing community, which severely limited counterfeiting incentive and equally limited survival rates outside the immediate area.