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10 Heller Aurach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Aurach am Hongar (Municipality of Aurach am Hongar) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#0068a-10 |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on cream paper, the obverse bears a central vignette enclosed within a decorative wreath border, presenting a rural panorama of Aurach with a prominent church steeple, a farmhouse, an agricultural cart, and sheaves of grain flanked by crossed tools. The denomination numeral '10' appears at the upper left and the word 'ZEHN' at the upper right, with 'HELLER' below, all in bold letterpress. The legend 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Aurach' runs across the top within a ruled frame, with ornamental corner devices completing the design. |
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| Signature(s) | Ludwig Kölblinger (Bürgermeister), Alois Staudinger (Vize-Bürgermeister) and Franz Landeshammer (Vize-Bürgermeister) |
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Aurach am Hongar is a small Upper Austrian village on the Attersee, and like hundreds of similarly minor municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency currency in the years following the First World War when coinage all but vanished from circulation. These Austrian Notgeld issues of 1920 were technically illegal under postwar monetary regulations, but the central authorities looked the other way — the alternative was no small change at all. Three signatories for a 10 Heller note is an unusual degree of civic formality for something worth so little.