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| Issuer | Gemeinde Bodendorf (Municipality of Bodendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | Zehn Heller 10 H Rekonvaleszentenheim Gemeinde Bodendorf |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Bodendorf Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Die Gemeinde Bodendorf haftet laut Gemeindeausschußsitzungsbeschlusses vom 2. Mai 1920 für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in der Zeit vom 1. bis 31. Jänner 1921 in gesetzlichem Baargelde einzulösen. Der Bürgermeister |
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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.