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10 Heller Aschbach
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aschbach (Market Town of Aschbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | Erwin Strondl |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark ink on plain paper within a decorative wavy-line border. To the left, a large vignette presents a detailed line-art view of a Gothic church with a pointed steeple, accompanied by the municipal coat of arms in the upper left corner. To the right, a smaller inset vignette shows a second local building with an onion-dome tower. The large numeral '10' and the denomination 'Zehn Heller' appear centrally, above the guarantee text and the validity date. Three manuscript signatures appear at the bottom, attributed to the Vizebürgermeister, the Bürgermeister, and a Gemeinderat. |
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| Reverse lettering | Entwurf: Erwin Strondl. 10 Zehn Heller 10 Der Markt Aschbach gibt laut Gemeinderatssitzungsbeschluß vom 8. April 1920 für Fünfzigtausend Kronen Notgeldscheine zu 10, 20 und 50 Heller aus. Diese Scheine sind unverzinslich u. werden bis 31. Dezember 1920 von der Marktgemeinde Aschbach in gesetzl. Bargeld eingelöst. Die Nachahmung dieser Scheine wird bestraft. Druck von F. Kielar, Amstetten. |
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Aschbach's 10 Heller notgeld was designed by Erwin Strondl and printed locally by F. Kielar in Amstetten — a pairing that kept the entire production within the immediate region, which was common for smaller Lower Austrian market towns scrambling to plug the coin shortage that gripped Austria in 1920. The postwar breakdown of the imperial monetary system had left even minor transactions impossible; municipalities at the parish level were effectively forced into issuing their own emergency currency whether they had the administrative apparatus for it or not.
Strondl contributed designs to several Lower Austrian notgeld series during this period, giving Aschbach's issue a degree of graphic ambition unusual for a town of its size.