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10 Heller Brunn am Gebirge
| Issuer | Gemeinde Brunn am Gebirge (Market Town of Brunn am Gebirge) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in purple-violet on cream paper, the obverse is dominated by a central vignette of the local parish church with its tall spire, set among trees, framed by ornate Art Nouveau scrollwork. The denomination numeral '10' appears in large bold type at upper left and upper right within decorative cartouches, with the word 'ZEHN' and 'HELLER' flanking the vignette. Three manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note beneath the titles 'Der Vizebürgermeister,' 'Der Bürgermeister,' and 'Für den Finanzausschuss,' with the issue date '16. Juni 1920' noted at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Laut Gemeinderatsbeschluß vom 16. Juni 1920 gibt die Marktgemeinde Brunn am Geb. Notgeld aus. Dasselbe wird bis 31. August 1920 in gesetzlicher Währung eingelöst. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Brunn am Gebirge's 10 Heller Notgeld was issued at the height of Austria's small-change crisis, when coin metal had been absorbed by the war economy and never returned to circulation. Thousands of Austrian municipalities printed their own emergency pfennig-level scrip between 1920 and 1921, and most of it was redeemed and pulped within months of issue — which is why surviving examples in any condition are harder to locate than their original print runs would suggest.
The issuing authority here is the market town itself, not a savings bank or merchant association, which was the more common arrangement for Lower Austrian communities of this size.