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10 Heller Aschach a. d. Donau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aschach an der Donau (Market Municipality of Aschach on the Danube) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Purple and red-orange Notgeld note printed in a bold Gothic decorative style. The central vignette consists of a large ornamental letter 'A' encircling the municipal coat of arms of Aschach, quartered with grapevines and floral motifs, flanked by scrolled ribbon banners carrying the inscription 'des Markts Aschach'. The denomination '10' appears in all four corners within red-orange heart-shaped cartouches, with the words 'Not-Geld' and 'Aschach' rendered in Gothic script along the lower field. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der M.-G. Aschach über 10 Heller Die Marktgemeinde Aschach a. D. haftet für diesen Schein durch eine eigene Deckungsrücklage. Dieser Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb vier Wochen nach erfolgter öffentl. Aufforderung bei der Gemeindekasse Aschach eingelöst wird. der Bürgermeister die Vizebürgermeister |
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Aschach an der Donau is a small market town on the upper Danube in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note is a product of the Notgeld wave that followed Austria's post-war economic collapse. With the Austro-Hungarian krone in freefall and small coins disappearing from circulation almost entirely by 1919–1920, municipalities across Austria took it upon themselves to print emergency currency at the local level — legally tolerated, if never formally sanctioned.
The Heller denominations were the most practical for everyday transactions, and Aschach issued its series specifically to plug the gap in small change. Paper quality and print runs varied wildly between issuing bodies; many of these small-town issues survived primarily as collector pieces rather than genuine circulation remnants.