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10 Heller Artstetten
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Artstetten (Market Town of Artstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | KASSEN-SCHEIN der MARKT-GEMEINDE ARTSTETTEN über 10 HELLER NUR GILTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on plain cream paper within a simple ruled rectangular border. The denomination ZEHN · 10 · HELLER is set in bold letterpress at the top, with the numeral 10 enclosed in an octagonal frame. Below, a three-line text in a serif script reads the guarantee clause of the Marktgemeinde Artstetten. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower left and right, attributed to the Vizebürgermeister and the Bürgermeister respectively, with the anti-counterfeiting legend NACHAHMUNG VERBOTEN centred beneath them. |
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Artstetten is inseparable from the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose castle there became his burial place after the 1914 Sarajevo assassination — an event that upended the empire whose currency this note was designed to replace. By 1920, Austria was deep in postwar monetary chaos, and hundreds of small municipalities issued their own Notgeld to compensate for the chronic shortage of small-denomination coin. Artstetten's 10 Heller was one of these emergency pieces, purely local in validity and typically redeemable only within the issuing community.
The Marktgemeinde series is among the more obscure Austrian municipal issues, with surviving quantities difficult to estimate reliably.