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10 Heller Aschbach
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aschbach (Market Town of Aschbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper reverse printed in green letterpress, enclosed within a decorative border of dot-and-chain guilloche motifs. The denomination 'Zehn Heller' is inscribed in large Gothic blackletter type at the top header band, with the numeral '10' repeated at both upper corners. The body carries a full text block in Gothic script setting out the authorising resolution of the Marktgemeinde Aschbach council dated 8 April 1920, the total issue of 50,000 Kronen in Notgeld denominations of 10, 20 and 50 Heller, the non-interest-bearing status of the notes, and the redemption guarantee until 31 December 1920, concluding with an anti-counterfeiting warning. The printer's imprint 'Druck von F. Kielar Amstetten' appears at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | 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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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.