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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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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0075IIa-10 |
| Obverse description | Notgeld voucher (Gutschein) of the Municipality of Bad Gastein, printed in black Gothic Fraktur script with red accents. The central denomination numeral '10' appears within a red hexagonal cartouche, flanked by the word 'Heller' on each side; at upper right the edition designation 'II. Auflage' and validity date '31.12.20.' are inscribed. Three manuscript signatures of municipal officials appear in the lower portion alongside an embossed red municipal seal at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is occupied by a photographic vignette printed in reddish-brown tones, enclosed within a plain ruled border. The vignette presents a panoramic townscape view of Bad Gastein set against a densely wooded Alpine hillside, with grand hotel buildings and a church spire visible among the trees. The image is rendered in a halftone letterpress technique on plain cream paper with no additional text or ornamental elements. |
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Bad Gastein's 1920 Heller notes belong to the vast Austrian Notgeld wave that followed the collapse of the Habsburg economy — small municipalities printing their own emergency fractional currency because state-issued small change had effectively vanished from circulation. Thousands of Austrian communes did the same between 1919 and 1922, and the issues vary enormously in print quality and survival rates.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0075IIa distinguishes this as a second series variant, suggesting Bad Gastein issued at least one prior version — worth noting when attributing examples.