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10 Heller Bad Gastein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bad Gastein (Municipality of Bad Gastein) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Heller Badgastein Reißenbichler Salzburg |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown on cream paper, the reverse carries a bold Art Nouveau decorative border of interlaced foliate and geometric forms surrounding a central oval cartouche. The cartouche contains the voucher text in a combination of script and roman lettering, stating the issuing authority, the validity date of 31 December 1920, and spaces for the manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and Gemeinderat. |
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Bad Gastein's Heller notgeld was issued during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Austria after the First World War, when hoarding of metal coinage left municipalities scrambling to fill the gap with locally printed paper. Hundreds of Austrian Gemeinden did the same in 1920, but the Bad Gastein series has modest collector interest due to the spa town's association with Habsburg aristocracy — it was a favored retreat of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Reißenbichler was a Salzburg-based printer responsible for several regional notgeld issues across the province. The JPR reference places this squarely in the Jaksch/Pick notgeld catalog for Austria.