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10 Heller Blindenmarkt
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Blindenmarkt |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue printed in dark brown on ochre-yellow paper, framed by a woodcut-style ornamental border of intertwined branches. A central oval vignette presents a view of the Blindenmarkt parish church and surrounding buildings, with the denomination numeral '10' at each upper corner; to the right, the value 'Zehn Heller' in Fraktur script is accompanied by the municipal coat of arms. The lower portion carries three facsimile manuscript signatures above their respective titles — Vizebürgermeister, Bürgermeister, and Gemeinde-Kassier — with the validity clause 'Gültig bis einschl. 30. Dez. 1920' distributed across the left and right fields. |
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| Obverse lettering | Marktgemeinde Blindenmarkt Zehn Heller 10 Die Gemeinde Blindenmarkt haftet für die Verbindlichkeit Gültig bis und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt einschl. 30. Dez. 1920 Vizebürgmst. Bürgermst. Gemeinde-Ka[ssier] |
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Blindenmarkt is a small market town in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — when wartime and postwar coin shortages left everyday commerce nearly impossible. The 10 Heller denomination was the workhorse of this system, intended to substitute for the smallest circulating coins rather than serve any banking function.
The Jaksch classification places this within the vast Austrian local Notgeld corpus. Most pieces from villages of this scale were printed in very limited quantities by regional job printers, often on whatever paper stock was available, making condition consistency across surviving examples poor.