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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Fraham (Municipality of Fraham, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is covered overall with a light green underprint of repeated '10' numerals within hexagonal cartouches, serving as a counter-forgery pattern. To the left, the issuer's name in Fraktur script and the denomination appear above a circular official municipality stamp of the Gemeinde-Amt Fraham. The central text block carries a four-line rhyming verse, the redemption obligation clause dated 15 May 1920, and the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Protection type | Underprint |
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Fraham is a village in the Eferding district of Upper Austria with a population that has rarely exceeded a few hundred souls. That such a tiny municipality issued its own emergency currency is less surprising than it sounds — Austria in 1920 was awash in Notgeld, as the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments scrambling to fill a coin shortage that the Vienna authorities could not address quickly enough.
Riedlinger's design credit is worth noting: local Notgeld often went to regional commercial artists rather than trained engravers, and the underprint security feature on a village-level issue reflects how seriously even minor municipalities took the formalities of fiduciary paper.