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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altaist (Municipality of Altaist) |
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| Shape | Rectangular (hand cut) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on cream paper, centred on a detailed rural Austrian village vignette within an ornate cartouche, signed by artist Karl Heyd at lower centre and illustrating a multi-storey farmhouse with outbuildings set beside a bridge and stream, with trees and hillside in the background. Denomination numeral '10' appears at upper left and upper right corners, with 'Heller' in decorative Gothic script along the lower border. A repeating dot-pattern rule frames the entire composition. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown Gothic script on cream paper, the reverse carries the municipal heading 'Gemeinde Altaist' across the top, followed by the redemption text arranged around a central oval municipality stamp reading 'Gemeindeamt Altaist, polit. Bezirk Perg, OB.-ÖST.' Three manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear below. The anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft' and the print-run designation '3. Auflage' appear at the foot, all enclosed within a repeating decorative border. |
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Altaist is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian and German communities after World War One, when small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely. Municipal authorities, businesses, and even individual villages printed their own emergency pfennig and heller issues to keep local commerce moving — thousands of distinct types were produced between roughly 1919 and 1922.
F. Kling of Linz was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which is exactly what you'd expect for a village-level issue of this kind. Karl Heyd's design credit is unusually specific for Notgeld of this scale.