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10 Heller Abstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Abstetten (Municipality of Abstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on cream paper with a fine wavy-line underprint across the entire field. A central vignette presents an ink-drawn panoramic view of Abstetten village, with a church steeple and rural buildings set among trees. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large bold type at both lower left and lower right, with the issuing legend arched across the top and a redemption clause in Gothic script below the vignette. |
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| Signature(s) | J. Brandsteidl |
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Abstetten is a small Lower Austrian village, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the post-WWI period when small-denomination coinage had essentially vanished from circulation. The Austrian federal government was unable to supply adequate coin, so communes were permitted — and effectively forced — to paper over the gap themselves. Abstetten's 10 Heller note of 1920 is a product of that pragmatic necessity rather than any civic ambition.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0002-10 places it firmly in the documented Lower Austrian municipal series, though survival rates for village-level Austrian Notgeld vary enormously depending on whether local collectors preserved them at the time.