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10 Heller Bad Ischl
| Issuer | Kurortsgemeinde Bad Ischl (Spa Municipality of Bad Ischl) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Hellers (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black on cream paper with a fine cross-hatched underprint. The denomination numeral '10' appears in bold Gothic type within square cartouches at upper left and upper right. A central text block in Fraktur script carries the issuer's name 'Bad Ischl' in large display lettering with the validity date 'Gültig bis 30. September 1920', below which the value 'Zehn Heller' is set in large ornate blackletter across the full width of the note. A lower panel contains the legal guarantee text in smaller Fraktur, beneath which three facsimile signatures appear above the titles of the two deputy mayors and the mayor. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on the same cream stock with a dense cross-hatched background guilloche. The upper portion carries four lines of Fraktur text stating the total issuance authority and issue date. A central vignette presents a panoramic townscape view of Bad Ischl with a church cross visible on the hillside and a river in the foreground, flanked on each side by decorative scroll cartouches enclosing the denomination numeral '10' at lower left and lower right. |
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Bad Ischl's notgeld was issued during the acute coin shortage that followed Austria's defeat in the First World War, when the new republican government struggled to maintain small-denomination currency supply across the provinces. Spa towns like Bad Ischl — still trading on prewar aristocratic tourism despite the collapse of the Habsburg court that had made the town famous — issued their own fractional notes to keep local commerce moving. Three municipal signatures on a 10 Heller piece is unusual; it suggests the Kurortsgemeinde required joint authorization at even the smallest denominations, possibly a safeguard against the fraud that plagued notgeld issuers elsewhere in the Austrian republic.