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10 Heller Aigen
| Issuer | Municipality of Aigen (Ober-Steiermark) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0014f-10 |
| Obverse description | Salmon-pink note with an ornate letterpress border of stylised foliage and geometric guilloche elements framing a central rectangular vignette of a panoramic Alpine landscape with mountains and a lake rendered in dark intaglio-style print. The denomination numeral '10' appears in a circular cartouche at the top centre flanked by ribbon scrolls inscribed 'heller', while two square corner panels at lower left and right each bear the legend '10 / zehn / heller'. The issuer inscription 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Aigen / Ober Steiermark' is set in decorative Gothic script below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Aigen Ober-Steiermark 10 Heller Unserer deutschen Heimat Fluren Sollen wieder neu ersteh'n. Die Gemeinde Aigen (Ober-Steiermark) haftet laut Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 17. Juli 1920 dafür, diesen Schein 4 Wochen nach Bekanntgabe in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Der Bürgermeister: |
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Austrian Notgeld of this type was a direct consequence of the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg empire — municipalities across the former crownlands began printing their own fractional notes in 1919 and 1920 to fill the gap left by disappearing small change. Aigen in Upper Styria was one of hundreds of small communities that issued these emergency pieces, most of which circulated only within the issuing locality and were redeemable for a limited period before being withdrawn and destroyed.
The Jaksch/Pick classification JPR0014f-10 places this among the later Styrian issues. Most surviving examples came from collector sets assembled contemporaneously — actual circulated specimens from villages this size are harder to find than their modest face value suggests.