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10 Heller Behamberg
| Issuer | Bauernrat der Gemeinde Behamberg (Farmers' Council of the Municipality of Behamberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset note printed in blue-grey on cream paper, framed by a decorative border of small rectangles. The issuing authority inscription in Gothic blackletter occupies the upper portion, with the authorization date of 17 June 1920 cited. The denomination word 'Heller' appears in large Gothic script to the left and right of a central octagonal vignette bearing the numeral '10' in white on a grey ground, flanked by horizontal guilloche bars. Redemption conditions and an anti-counterfeiting warning are set in smaller type below. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in olive-green on cream paper, the reverse centres on a rectangular vignette of a rural farmstead with bare deciduous trees in the foreground, enclosed within an ornate frame surmounted by a ribbon-and-bow cartouche. The denomination numeral '10' appears in each of the four corners within circular medallions, and braided foliate borders run along the vertical sides. The printer's imprint is set in small capitals at the base. |
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Behamberg is a small rural municipality in Upper Austria, and this note was issued not by a bank or government treasury but by a local farmers' council — one of hundreds of Austrian Gemeinden that resorted to printing their own emergency Kleingeld after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left the new republic chronically short of small-denomination coins. The Bauernrat context is unusual; most comparable notgeld came from municipal councils or commercial issuers, not agricultural representative bodies.
E. Haas & Comp. in nearby Steyr handled a substantial volume of regional notgeld printing during this period, which kept costs low for tiny communities that needed only modest print runs.