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10 Heller Bad Ischl
| Issuer | Kurortsgemeine Bad Ischl (Spa Town of Bad Ischl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-tinted notgeld printed in dark brown letterpress, framed by a simple ruled border. The denomination numeral '10' is set in the upper left and upper right corners, flanking a central header panel with the issuer name and validity date; the blackletter legend 'Zehn Heller' dominates the mid-field. Below, a block of German text details the redemption obligation of the Kurortsgemeine Bad Ischl, with three manuscript signatures at the foot attributed to the Deputy Mayor, the Mayor, and a second Deputy Mayor. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Kurortsgeminde Bad Ischl gibt Gutscheinte bis zu einem Gesamtbetrage von 60.000 Kronen aus. G.R.B. 1.3.1920. Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. Bad Ischl, am 6. April 1920. 10 10 |
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Bad Ischl's notgeld issues of 1920 belong to the second wave of Austrian emergency currency — not the improvised wartime scrip of 1914–1918, but the deliberately decorative collector-targeted issues that municipalities produced knowing full well philatelists would snap them up. The Kurortsgemeinde had particular motivation to lean into presentation: Bad Ischl had been the summer residence of Emperor Franz Joseph I for over sixty years, and the town was trading aggressively on that imperial nostalgia just two years after the Habsburg collapse.
The 10 Heller denomination was the smallest in the Bad Ischl series, and at the rampant inflation rates of early 1920s Austria, its practical purchasing power was negligible almost from the moment of issue.