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10 Heller Altschwendt
| Issuer | Gemeinde Altschwendt (Municipality of Altschwendt) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in grey and red, with the denomination '10' and the heading 'Gut-Schein' across the top. Two oval vignettes flank the central text block — the left shows a linden tree labelled 'Sachalinde' and the right depicts a rural building labelled 'Voidlhaus'. A substantial block of Gothic-script text in red sets out the municipal authorisation, signed by Bürgermeister Altmann, with 'Gemeinde Altschwendt' and 'Heller' inscribed along the lower border. |
| Reverse lettering | 10 Gut-Schein 10 Sachalinde Voidlhaus Gemeinde Altschwendt Heller Nachdem 10% aller verflossenen Vorräte Altschweindter Gemeinde Laut Ausschuss-Sitzungs-Beschluss vom 25. April 1920 gibt die Gemeinde Altschwendt Entscheine aus und wird die Einlösung derselben durch eine eigene Kundmachung bekanntgegeben. Nachdem, oderbotengen Altmann, Bürgermeister |
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Altschwendt is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian towns and villages between 1919 and 1921. With the old Habsburg monetary system collapsed and coin shortages acute across the former empire, local authorities — including obscure agricultural communes with no meaningful financial infrastructure — were legally permitted to issue low-denomination emergency scrip. Gemeinde Altschwendt took that authorization at face value.
Village-level Notgeld from Upper Austria is among the least-documented in the broader Austrian series. Many issues were produced in tiny quantities by local printers or even handwritten, and survival rates are low not because of heavy circulation but because no one thought to preserve them.