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10 Heller Asperhofen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Asperhofen (Municipality of Asperhofen) |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Giltig bis 31. Dezember 1920 · Nachahmung wird bestraft Kleingeldnot zu Unsre — wenden lass — dich in die Wei- — te senden 10 Heller Gutschein der Gemeinde Asperhofen N.-Ö. |
| Reverse description | Printed in purple-violet ink on pale paper, the reverse carries a panoramic line-engraved vignette of the village of Asperhofen set against a hilly landscape, with the church spire rising above the rooftops at centre. Below the vignette, the issuer's name 'Gemeinde Asperhofen' appears in Gothic lettering within a hatched band, beneath which the denomination '10 Heller' is set in large Gothic type flanked by numeral cartouches at left and right. The designer's name 'A. Rohrhofer' and the printer's imprint 'C. Quelser – Amstetten' appear in small type at the lower corners. |
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Asperhofen is a small Lower Austrian village that, like hundreds of Austrian municipalities, was forced into issuing its own emergency currency during the First World War when small-denomination coins vanished from circulation almost entirely. The imperial government's failure to supply adequate coinage created a patchwork of local Notgeld that varied wildly in production quality — a village printing house like C. Quelser in Amstetten represents exactly the kind of regional jobbing printer pressed into producing what were essentially unofficial instruments of local commerce.
The JPR0058a designation places this within the Jaksch cataloguing of Austrian municipal issues, a collecting field where the designer credit — here A. Rohrhofer — is unusually specific for a note at this denomination level.