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10 Heller Bodendorf
| Issuer | Gemeinde Bodendorf (Municipality of Bodendorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Zehn Heller 10 H Rekonvaleszentenheim Gemeinde Bodendorf |
| Reverse description | Plain white reverse with all text printed in black Gothic script. The heading 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Bodendorf' occupies the upper portion, followed by the validity clause 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920.' A central redemption paragraph sets out the municipality's liability per the council resolution of 2 May 1920, committing to redeem the voucher in legal tender between 1 and 31 January 1921. The title 'Der Bürgermeister' with a manuscript signature appears at the lower right. |
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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.