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10 Heller Anzbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Anzbach (Municipality of Anzbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress note with a central oval vignette of the Anzbach parish church and chapel set against a landscape background, framed by elaborate foliate and scroll ornamental surrounds in the Jugendstil manner. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large decorative type at both upper corners, each accompanied by the legend 'HELLER', while a ribbon cartouche below the vignette carries the text 'GUTSCHEIN GEMEINDE' and 'ANZBACH'. Three manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and two Vizebürgermeister appear along the lower margin beneath their respective printed title labels. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unadorned reverse in blue letterpress on buff paper, entirely typeset without pictorial elements. The upper portion carries the heading 'GUTSCHEIN DER GEMEINDE ANZBACH ÜBER 10 HELLER' in bold display type of graduated sizes, followed by a block of justified explanatory text in German setting out the terms of issue and legal tender provisions. The imprint of the printer appears at the foot of the note, and the edition designation '2. AUFLAGE.' is set in spaced capitals below the main text block. |
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Anzbach is a small market commune in Lower Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian municipalities after the First World War. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left local governments scrambling to produce small-denomination scrip simply to make change — coins had effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding and metal requisitions during the war years.
Chwala's Druck was a Vienna commercial printer regularly contracted for municipal Notgeld across Lower Austria, which accounts for the relatively consistent typography across issues from different communes in the region.