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10 Heller
| Issuer | Municipality of Altenberg (Federal State of Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 90 x 52 mm |
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| Obverse description | White stock printed in red throughout, enclosed within an ornate letterpress border composed of repeating floral rosette elements. A central vignette presents a wayside cross on a rocky outcrop — identified as the "Franzosenkreuz near Altenberg" — set against a wooded background, with a uniformed soldier standing guard on each lateral side. The issuer's name and denomination appear as the principal inscriptions above and below the vignette respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | “Gutschein der Gemeinde Altenberg – Zehn Heller”. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type was a direct consequence of the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. Municipalities across what remained of Austria issued their own emergency small-denomination notes from roughly 1919 onward, filling a gap the new republican government was too financially strained to address through minting. Altenberg, a small Upper Austrian community, was among hundreds of such local authorities that produced these issues — typically in short print runs managed locally.
The 1920 date places this within the second wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld, by which point many towns had already begun treating the series as a collector revenue opportunity as much as a genuine circulating necessity.