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10 Heller Altmünster
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altmünster (Municipality of Altmünster) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the obverse presents a panoramic vignette of the town of Altmünster with Alpine peaks rising in the background and a church spire visible among the rooftops. To the left, an ornate cartouche with scrollwork encloses the denomination numeral '10' above a guarantee text, surmounted by a small vignette of a church building. The issuer's name and denomination are set in decorative calligraphic script across the upper portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in brown on cream paper, is framed by a decorative border with a guilloche-style pattern and presents the issuing authority's name in large calligraphic script at centre. Flanking vignettes depict local landmarks — Schloss Orth tower on the left and a church with spire on the right. The central text field carries the redemption pledge, the place and date of issue ('Altmünster 20. Mai 1920'), three facsimile signatures above an ornamental branch motif, and an anti-counterfeiting warning at the foot. |
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Altmünster is a small lakeside municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is one of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced by local authorities between 1919 and 1921 when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The postwar economic dislocation — combined with the collapse of the Habsburg currency system and a severe coin shortage — forced communes as minor as Altmünster to print their own emergency fractional currency just to keep local commerce moving.
The Jaksch catalog reference places this firmly within the documented Upper Austrian municipal series. These small-town issues were printed in short runs and rarely traveled far from home.