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10 Heller Arbing
| Issuer | Gemeinde Arbing (Municipality of Arbing) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Reverse description | The entire face is occupied by a landscape vignette within a plain ruled border, rendered in brown letterpress by E. Prietzel of Steyr; the scene shows a medieval church with a pointed roof and a tall ruined stone tower rising above surrounding trees, with a path in the foreground. The printer's imprint 'E. Prietzel, Steyr' appears at the lower right margin of the vignette. The denomination '10 Heller 10' is set in bold Gothic blackletter type across the bottom of the note. |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Fritzl |
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Arbing is a small parish municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that swept Austrian communities after the First World War left the new republic with a chronic small-change shortage. Towns and villages printed their own emergency currency partly out of necessity and partly, by 1920, because collector demand had turned Notgeld into a minor revenue stream — many municipalities issued these knowing they'd never circulate seriously.
E. Prietzel in Steyr was a regional printer handling multiple local issues during this period. The single signature, Joh. Fritzl, almost certainly the Bürgermeister or a senior municipal official at the time.