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10 Heller Altenburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altenburg bei Perg (Municipality of Altenburg near Perg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-brown ink on cream paper, the obverse carries a bird's-eye-view vignette of Schloss Bragtal (dated 1564) in the lower left and the Meierhof farmstead complex at centre, rendered in a detailed cartographic-illustrative style. The denomination '10 Heller' appears in Gothic script within decorative frames at upper left and upper right, flanking a central header panel inscribed 'Altenburg b. Perg'. A continuous ornamental dot-and-scroll border frames the entire note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue ink on cream paper, the reverse is entirely typographic, set in Gothic blackletter script within a diamond-pattern border. A block text records the resolution of the Gemeindeausschuss Altenburg bei Perg, dated 30 May 1920, authorising the issuance of this Notgeld and its redemption for legal tender until 1 January 1921. Below the text appears the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister Königshofer, with the denomination numeral '10' in large Gothic figures at lower left and lower right, accompanied by an anti-counterfeiting warning. |
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Altenburg bei Perg is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld emergency coinage wave that swept Austrian municipalities between 1919 and 1921. The chronic shortage of small-denomination coins after the collapse of the Habsburg economy forced even villages with negligible administrative apparatus to print their own circulating paper. Königshofer signed as Bürgermeister, lending the note whatever local legal weight it carried.
The JPR0026b designation within the Jaksc catalog places this in a subdivided series, suggesting at least minor variant differences exist within the Altenburg issues — likely in ink, paper stock, or overprint detail.