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10 Heller Auberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Auberg (Municipality of Auberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | Bernhard Derschmidt |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress vignette on buff paper, divided into two panels by a vertical stone-wall motif. The left panel presents a rural landscape with an arched bridge over a stream, flanked by trees, rendered in fine linear illustration. The right panel carries the numeral '10' set within a circular stone-textured underprint, with a village roofscape above. The municipality name 'AUBERG o.ö.' appears in a bold sans-serif typeface within a ruled frame at the upper left, and the printer's and designer's credits are inscribed in small text along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain buff paper printed entirely in blue letterpress. Four lines of rhyming dialect verse appear at the top, followed by the bold heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Auberg.' in large display type. Below, a block of legal text in smaller roman type sets out the municipal guarantee of redemption per council resolution of 13 June 1920, with a counterfeiting warning. The line 'Der Bürgermeister:' and the edition designation '1. Aufl.' appear centred, beneath which a manuscript signature of the mayor is applied. |
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Auberg is a village in Upper Austria with a population that has never exceeded a few hundred — the kind of municipality that resorted to emergency notgeld not out of financial sophistication but sheer necessity, as the postwar coin shortage of 1919–1920 left even the smallest rural communities unable to make change. Derschmidt's involvement as designer gives this note slightly more considered artwork than the purely functional scrip issued by comparable hamlets, though Ekling & Wofahr were a workaday regional printer rather than a prestige house.
The JPR0066a designation covers the 10 Heller denomination within what appears to be a small series for the municipality. Survival rate for village-level Austrian notgeld varies wildly; many issues were redeemed almost immediately once federal coinage returned to circulation in late 1920 and 1921.