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10 Heller Aschbach
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aschbach (Market Town of Aschbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Green on buff paper Notgeld issued by the Marktgemeinde Aschbach. The left vignette presents a detailed letterpress view of the local parish church with a tall steeple, flanked in the upper left corner by the municipal coat of arms bearing a fish emblem. A secondary vignette at right depicts a public building with a domed tower set against a rural backdrop. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large bold type at centre, with the issuing authority inscribed in Gothic script at top and the guarantee clause with redemption date 31 Dez. 1920 below, above three signature lines for the Vizebürgermeister, der Bürgermeister, and Gemeinderat. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Aschbach Zehn Heller 10 Die Gemeinde haftet für die Verbindlichkeit bis 31 Dez. 1920 Vizebürgermeister: Der Bürgermeister: Gemeinderat: |
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Austrian Notgeld of this period was produced by hundreds of municipalities scrambling to address a severe small-change shortage that persisted well after the armistice. The national government was unable to supply sufficient coin, so local authorities were formally permitted to issue their own emergency pfennig-denomination notes — a situation almost without parallel in Western European monetary history.
F. Kielar was a regional Amstetten printer with no particular numismatic pedigree, brought in simply because he was local and available. Aschbach's series is among the more modest of the Lower Austrian Notgeld issues, with no evidence of the elaborate artistic programs that made some Styrian and Tyrolean municipal notes collector objects almost from the moment of issue.