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10 Heller Aspach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aspach (Municipality of Aspach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | The upper portion of the obverse is occupied by a letterpress vignette of Schloss Aspach as it appeared circa 1700, rendered in an engraved landscape style and signed by the artist L. Daringer at lower right; a scroll banner above the vignette carries the caption, while a heraldic coat of arms appears at the upper right corner. The lower panel, printed in red on a green underprint, carries the denomination numeral '10' flanked by the word 'Heller' on both sides, with the issuing authority text in Fraktur script across the centre. Three manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on plain cream-coloured paper and enclosed within a decorative scrollwork border of interlocking foliate ornaments. At the centre, the word 'Gutschein' in large Fraktur lettering is set above a cruciform panel arrangement that places the denomination numeral '10' at the intersection, flanked left and right by the word 'Heller' within dotted rectangular frames, with 'über' above and 'der' below the numeral. The issuing authority name 'Gemeinde Aspach.' is printed in large Fraktur script at the foot of the note. |
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Aspach is a small municipality in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller note belongs to the enormous wave of Notgeld issued by Austrian towns and villages between 1919 and 1921 when small coin virtually disappeared from circulation following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Hundreds of communes printed their own emergency fractional notes during this period, and Daringer's involvement suggests a locally commissioned design rather than a generic printer's stock.
The 1920 dating places this in the second, more self-conscious phase of Austrian Notgeld production, when many municipalities had shifted from purely functional issues to notes with some decorative ambition — partly for local pride, partly because collectors were already buying them directly from town halls.