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10 Heller
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Grieskirchen (City of Grieskirchen, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 15 October 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper ground enclosed within a dashed guilloche border in blue extending the full perimeter of the note. The numeral '10' is set in large Gothic blackletter type at the upper left, with the issuing authority and denomination legend arranged in the central field in graduated blackletter script. A redemption clause in smaller Gothic type specifying the validity period of 1 to 15 October 1920 appears below, concluded by the mayor's printed facsimile signature at the foot. |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Straßer |
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Grieskirchen is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller Notgeld note is exactly the kind of hyperlocal emergency scrip that proliferated across Austria between 1919 and 1922 when the newly formed republic could not produce enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday demand. Hundreds of municipalities issued their own paper, each authorized under their own seal, signed by local officials — here, one Joh. Straßer, almost certainly the Bürgermeister or a senior municipal administrator at the time.
The Heller itself was already a dying unit. Austria abolished it in 1924.