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10 Heller Bodendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bodendorf (Municipality of Bodendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Jos. Waltl, Linz |
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| Obverse description | Green notgeld note with a chequered outer border frame enclosing a central letterpress vignette of the Rekonvaleszentenheim (convalescent home), rendered in fine line engraving amid surrounding trees and grounds. The denomination 'Zehn Heller 10 H' is inscribed in Gothic script across the upper portion, flanked by decorative thistle motifs on both lateral borders. The issuer name 'Gemeinde Bodendorf' appears in Gothic lettering at the lower edge, with the printer attribution 'Jos. Waltl Linz' set in small type below the border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Zehn Heller 10 H Rekonvaleszentenheim Gemeinde Bodendorf |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this type was born out of postwar coin shortages so severe that hundreds of villages and small towns printed their own fractional paper to keep local commerce moving. Bodendorf's 10 Heller piece, printed by Jos. Waltl in Linz, belongs to the 1920 wave of such issues — later than the wartime emergency notgeld of 1914–1918 and issued just as the new Austrian Republic was still struggling to stabilize its currency after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system.
Waltl was a regional Linz printer, not a specialist security press, which is exactly what you'd expect for a village-level issue of this kind.