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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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| Obverse description | Printed in dark rose-red on plain paper, the obverse is dominated by large Gothic-script numerals '10' and the denomination inscription 'Heller' to the left, with the issuer legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Münzkirchen' in ornate lettering across the upper portion. A detailed landscape vignette in the lower right renders the St. Sebastian Pestkapelle (plague chapel, dated 1635) amid trees, with a caption reading 'St. Sebastian Pestkapelle ans. anno 1635' beneath the scene. A decorative floral or foliate motif appears to the lower left, complementing the pictorial composition. |
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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. |
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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.