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10 Heller Aschach a. d. Steyr
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aschach an der Steyr (Municipality of Aschach an der Steyr) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on pale green paper. The heading reads 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Aschach a.d. Steyr' within a decorative frame with scrollwork corners, flanked by the numeral '10' on each side. A central cartouche with ornate guilloche scrollwork bears the denomination in large text. Below, a three-line guarantee text states the municipality's liability, followed by three manuscript signatures beneath the titles '1. Gemeinderat', 'Bürgermeister', and 'Vizebürgermeister', with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Zehn Heller 10 Gültig bis 30. Septemb. 1920. Nachahmung wird bestraft. Wirt'in der Luft |
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One of thousands of Austrian Notgeld issues produced in the chaotic years following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, this Heller note from Aschach an der Steyr reflects the acute coin shortage that plagued small Austrian municipalities from 1919 onward. Emil Briegel operated as a local commercial printer in Steyr — his output for regional Notgeld was purely practical, without the elaborate artistic ambitions of the collector-oriented "Serienscheine" that some larger towns commissioned around the same time.
The JPR prefix in the Jaksc catalog denotes provisional regional issues, a classification that distinguishes emergency municipal notes from the more formally administered state-level emissions.