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10 Heller Aschach a. d. Donau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aschach an der Donau |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Pink and teal letterpress Notgeld note with the municipal coat of arms of Aschach at centre, incorporating a large stylised letter 'A' interwoven with scrolled banderoles inscribed 'des marckt aschach', and a quartered shield with grape vine and floral motifs below. The denomination '10' appears in teal roundels at each corner, with vertical teal stripe underprints flanking the central vignette on either side. The word 'Heller' is inscribed in Gothic blackletter across the upper portion, with 'Not-Geld' and 'Aschach' rendered in matching script along the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | Cream-toned note with a fine pink guilloche border pattern framing the entire surface. The heading 'Gutschein der M.-G. Aschach' is set in bold Gothic blackletter, with the value 'über 10 Heller' centred beneath. A full-text redemption clause in German blackletter script occupies the middle field, followed by manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and three Vizebürgermeister below their respective printed title lines. A small printer's mark appears in the lower right corner. |
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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 swept Austria in 1920 — when the postwar collapse of the krone made small change virtually impossible to circulate. Municipal authorities across Austria printed their own emergency issues to fill the gap left by the coin shortage. Most were redeemed quickly and destroyed, making survivors of even the most ordinary issues genuinely uncommon today.
Locally printed, as the colophon confirms — not contracted to Vienna.