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10 Heller Bad Hall
| Issuer | Kurort Bad Hall (Spa Town of Bad Hall, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in olive-brown on cream paper, the centre of the note presents an ornate cartouche enclosing a vignette of the Tassilo-Quelle pump room, a domed neoclassical pavilion surrounded by cypress trees. The denomination '10 HELLER' appears in the upper left and upper right corners, flanked on each side by schematic vignettes of ornamental fountain basins. The legend 'TASSILOQUELLE' is inscribed beneath the central cartouche. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on buff paper, the left half bears a circular municipal seal of Bad Hall with the inscription 'IN DER HOFMARK DAS SIGILL DER VON HALL' and a date of 1627, enclosing an image of a church or town building. To the right, bold letterpress text reads 'NOTGELD DES KURORTES BAD HALL OB.Ö.' followed by the validity clause 'GILTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1920.' and the authority line 'BÜRGERMEISTER-STELLV. · BÜRGERMEISTER · GEMEINDEAUSSCHUSS.' with three manuscript signatures below. |
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Bad Hall's notgeld series belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency money produced across Austria between 1919 and 1922, when chronic small-coin shortages left towns printing their own fractional currency. Bad Hall, however, had a particular incentive to make its notgeld attractive: the town's identity as an iodine spa resort meant these notes were also sold as collectors' pieces to visiting patients and tourists, a sideline that many Upper Austrian kurorts exploited deliberately during this period.
The JAK/JPR reference places this within the Jansonius catalog of Austrian local issues. Many Bad Hall pieces from this run were printed in limited quantities specifically for the collector trade rather than genuine circulation use.