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10 Heller Aurolzmünster
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Aurolzmünster (Market Town of Aurolzmünster) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper with a decorative border. To the left, a vertical panel with fine vertical line underprint contains an oval portrait vignette of Graf Arco, captioned below in small lettering; the artist's name 'Bitterer' appears at the lower left margin. To the right, the denomination numeral '10' appears in a shaded box at upper centre, flanked by two columns of text in German Kurrent script stating the market town's redemption obligation. The value 'Zehn Heller' is rendered in large Gothic blackletter script across the centre, below which validity text, an anti-counterfeiting warning, the date '9.4.1920', and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature appear. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper with a hatched border running around all four sides. The upper portion carries the issuer's title in two lines of bold Gothic lettering. The central vignette, framed by an arched gateway flanked by stylised bare trees, presents a townscape view of Aurolzmünster with the onion-domed church tower rising above rooftops and a body of water in the foreground. To the right, a narrow vertical panel contains the denomination '10 Heller' in bold sans-serif figures. |
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Aurolzmünster is a small market town in Upper Austria, and this 1920 Heller note is a product of the notgeld wave that swept through Austrian municipalities following the First World War, when chronic small-coin shortages forced even minor local authorities to print their own emergency currency. The designer credit "Bitterer" almost certainly refers to a local craftsman rather than any professional printing house — an educated guess, but consistent with the note's known place of printing.
The "b" variant designation in the Jaksch reference indicates at least one other version of this denomination exists within the same issue series.