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10 Heller Aigen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aigen (Municipality of Aigen, Upper Styria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | heller 10 heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Aigen Ober Steiermark 10 zehn Heller |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark green on plain white paper within a simple decorative border of geometric dashes. The upper section carries a three-panel layout with the denomination '10 Heller' in the left and right panels and the issuer title 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Aigen, Ober-Steiermark' in the central panel. Below, a two-line patriotic verse appears in italic script, followed by the full redemption text in justified Gothic typeface stating the municipality's liability under a council resolution dated 17 July 1920 to redeem the note in legal tender within four weeks of public notice. The signature of the Bürgermeister (mayor) appears at the lower left with the printed title 'Der Bürgermeister:'. |
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Austrian Notgeld of this kind emerged from a straightforward post-WWI breakdown: the central monetary system had collapsed badly enough that rural Styrian municipalities were printing their own fractional notes to cover everyday transactions that coins could no longer handle. Aigen im Ennstal — a small market town in the Gesäuse region — was one of hundreds of communes across Austria that filled the gap between roughly 1919 and 1922.
The Jaksch reference places this firmly in the documented series for the municipality. Notgeld of this denomination and origin typically circulated only within the issuing community, redeemable locally, and most were retired and pulped once the Austrian National Bank stabilized the supply of small change.