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10 Heller Altaist
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altaist (Municipality of Altaist) |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Heller |
| Reverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the reverse carries a repetitive ornamental border of interlocking geometric and circular motifs framing the entire note. The issuer's name 'Gemeinde Altaist' is set in large Gothic blackletter script at the top. Below, a bilingual text block in German states the purpose of the emergency currency voucher, flanked by a central oval official stamp reading 'Gemeindeamt Altaist / polit. Bezirk Pere / OB.-ÖST.' Three manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, identified by their titles as Bürgermeister, I. Vizebürgermeister, and II. Vizebürgermeister. The caution legend 'Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft' (Counterfeiting is punishable by law) and the edition designation '1. Auflage' appear at the bottom. |
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Altaist is a small village in Upper Austria, and this Heller note is a product of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria during the First World War. Municipal and parish authorities across the country were authorized to issue their own emergency currency — Notgeld — to keep local commerce functioning when coins vanished from circulation due to hoarding and metal requisitions. Gemeinde Altaist did exactly that, with three local officials signing off on notes printed by F. Kling in Linz. Karl Hayd is credited as designer, an unusual level of attribution for such a minor issuer.