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10 Heller Aigen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aigen (Municipality of Aigen, Salzburg) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on buff paper with a decorative border of stylized tally-mark and zigzag motifs along all four edges, with the denomination numerals '1' and '0' repeated in the corners. The issuer name 'GEMEINDE AIGEN' is set in bold Gothic display type at the top, above the large central denomination '10 Heller' rendered in ornate blackletter script within a circular guilloche underprint. Below, a block of Gothic text states the redemption conditions, validity date of 31 October 1920, and lists the authorizing municipal officials: Bürgermeister Frühstorfer, Reiter, and Pradenlob of the Gemeinderate. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on buff paper with a plain rule border incorporating small square corner ornaments and a dense dash pattern along the top and side margins. 'GEMEINDE AIGEN' is inscribed in bold Gothic lettering at the top, below which a central octagonal vignette, edged with a dotted frame, presents a landscape view of the village of Aigen with a church tower, surrounding trees, and distant hills. The denomination '10 Heller' in stylized script appears beneath the vignette, accompanied by the anti-counterfeiting warning 'NACHAHMUNG STRAFBAR'. |
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Aigen is a small locality absorbed into Salzburg proper in 1935, and notes like this one were issued under the Austrian Notgeld system that proliferated from 1919 onward as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation. Municipal authorities — down to the village level — were permitted to print their own emergency fractional currency, creating hundreds of distinct issuers across a few years. The W. Müller imprint places production firmly in Salzburg city, a common arrangement for the surrounding district communities who lacked local print capacity.
The "b" suffix in the Jaksc/Pick reference indicates a recognized variety within the series, most commonly a paper stock or color distinction from the primary type.