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10 Heller Bischofstetten
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bischofstetten (Municipality of Bischofstetten) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 30 September 1920 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on buff paper, enclosed within a ruled border with small ornamental corner pieces. A large central guilloche medallion carries a vignette of two wheat sheaves rising from a mound against radiating lines, encircled by the motto "DURCH ARBEIT ZUM SEGEN". The denomination numeral "10" in red appears in scalloped cartouches at the upper left and upper right corners, with vertical side panels bearing anti-counterfeiting and validity inscriptions. |
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| Signature(s) | Riesinger (Bürgermeister) |
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Bischofstetten is a small Lower Austrian village that, like hundreds of other rural municipalities, issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — in the postwar years when small-denomination coins vanished almost entirely from circulation. The signed authority here is the Bürgermeister Riesinger, whose signature gave the note whatever local credibility it carried.
The print run of over twelve million for a village of this size is striking and almost certainly reflects wholesale production for collector distribution rather than genuine local need — a common practice by 1920, when the Notgeld market had become thoroughly commercialized.