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10 Heller Amstetten smooth Paper
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Amstetten (City of Amstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | C. Queiser, Amstetten |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadtgemeinde Amstetten. Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Zehn Heller Die Stadtgemeinde Amstetten haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Der Vizebürgermeister. Der Bürgermeister. Der Finanzreferent. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zehn Heller 10 10 Die Stadtgemeinde Amstetten gibt Gutscheine bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 60.000 K aus. (G.-R.-B. 9./12. 1919.) Diese Gutscheine werden bis 31. Dez. 1920 bei der Stadtkasse in gesetzl. Bargelde eingelöst. Amstetten, am 1. Jänner 1920. C. Queiser, Amstetten |
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Amstetten's 10 Heller note belongs to the vast wave of Austrian municipal notgeld issued after the First World War, when coin shortages — worsened by wartime metal requisitioning and postwar economic dislocation — forced towns across the former empire to print their own fractional currency. C. Queiser was a local Amstetten printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which accounts for the relatively plain execution. Three signatures — a bureaucratic redundancy typical of small municipal issues seeking to establish legitimacy through visible authorization rather than security printing.