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10 Heller Altenberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altenberg (Municipality of Altenberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress vignette on cream paper, centred on the Franzosenkreuz (French Cross) wayside shrine at Altenberg, framed by dense foliate branches. A Tyrolean hunter in traditional dress stands to the left, a second figure with rifle to the right, and a small cherub appears amid the foliage at centre-right. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large Gothic script at lower left and lower right, with the value legend 'Zehn Heller.' in a ribbon scroll below. A decorative banner across the upper field carries the issuer inscription, and the designer's name 'L. Haase' is noted at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Altenberg Franzosenkreuz bei Altenberg Zehn Heller. 10 |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this type was printed during the severe coin shortage that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy — small-denomination metal coins had effectively vanished from circulation by 1919, hoarded or melted, leaving village economies to improvise. Hundreds of Austrian gemeinden commissioned their own emergency issues, most through local or regional printers working from submitted artwork.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this among the documented Altenberg series, with the "b" variant designation suggesting at least two distinct printings or paper types exist for the 10 Heller value. L. Haase as designer is recorded but otherwise obscure in the notgeld literature.