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10 Heller Ansfelden
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ansfelden (Commune of Ansfelden) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Gemeinde Ansfelden 10 Heller 10 |
| Reverse description | Brown on cream paper, the reverse is set within a rectangular border with ruled column panels on each side bearing repeated numeral '10' separators. The central text panel carries the word 'ZEHN' at the top flanked by decorative rosettes, the word 'Gutschein' in ornate script below, followed by the redemption text in German, the place and date 'Ansfelden, 6. Mai 1920', and the mayoral signature line 'Der Bürgermeister:' with a manuscript signature. 'HELLER' in block capitals with flanking rosettes closes the lower panel, and a small printer's monogram appears at lower left. |
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Austrian Notgeld from the early 1920s occupies a peculiar corner of paper money history. Following the economic dislocation of the First World War, the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage forced thousands of Austrian municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency — legally tolerated, locally redeemable, and wildly inconsistent in quality. Ansfelden, a small agricultural commune south of Linz in Upper Austria, was one of hundreds that participated.
L. Haase of Linz handled printing for numerous Upper Austrian communes during this period, which accounts for the relative competence of the execution compared to some rural issues done on office presses.