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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 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown Notgeld note printed in letterpress on cream paper, with the denomination numeral '10' in large bold type at upper left and upper right within ruled panels. A central vignette renders the parish church of Brunn am Gebirge flanked by trees, set against a fine guilloche underprint of swirling lines; the artist's signature 'Alex Scherbán' appears at lower right of the vignette. The issuer legend 'NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE BRUNN' runs in a bold banner across the lower portion, with the obligation text divided left and right, and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials below their printed titles. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse enclosed by a single decorative chain-link border in dark brown. The field is occupied entirely by a block of justified German text in a serif typeface, stating the legal authorization for the Notgeld issue by resolution of the town council dated 16 June 1920, its redemption deadline of 31 October 1920, and a warning that counterfeiting is punishable by law. No vignette or additional ornament appears. |
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Brunn am Gebirge is a small market town south of Vienna, and like hundreds of Austrian municipalities in 1920, it was forced to issue its own emergency small change — Notgeld — because the collapsing postwar monetary system had drained metallic coinage almost entirely from circulation. The 10 Heller denomination sits at the lowest end of the Notgeld range, intended for daily transactions that the national currency simply could not physically support at the time.
Alex Scherbán was among the designers who worked across multiple Austrian municipal issues during this period, contributing to what became an unlikely flowering of local graphic art under fiscal duress.