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10 Heller
| Issuer | Gemeinde Münzkirchen (Municipality of Münzkirchen, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue on plain paper, the reverse carries a double-rule rectangular border enclosing the full text of the note's legal authorization. The heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Münzkirchen, O.-Oe.' appears at the top, with the denomination '10 Heller 10' in large type below. A block of justified text sets out the municipal council resolution of 25 April 1920 authorizing issue up to 20,000 Kronen, redeemable in legal tender by 31 December 1920, with the municipality's full assets pledged as guarantee; the note bears handwritten signatures of the Bürgermeister and Gemeinderäte, and a printer's mark is visible at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Münzkirchen, O.-Oe. über 10 Heller 10 Die Gemeinde Münzkirchen gibt auf Grund des Gemeindeausschuß-Beschlusses vom 25. April 1920 Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 20.000 Kronen aus. Die Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. Die Gemeinde Münzkirchen haftet für die Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen. Der Bürgermeister: Die Gemeinderäte: Die Nachmachung dieses Gutscheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Münzkirchen is a small market town in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized Austrian municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the currency chaos that followed the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. The 10 Heller denomination from 1920 belongs to the second wave of Austrian municipal Notgeld, issued after the initial wartime shortages had given way to a deeper structural problem: chronic small-coin scarcity in the new Republic of Austria.
Most Innviertel Notgeld of this period was printed locally or regionally in very small runs, and survival rates vary sharply even within a single municipal series.