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10 Heller Brunnenthal
| Issuer | Gemeinde Brunnenthal (Municipality of Brunnenthal) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark mauve-brown on cream paper, the face is enclosed within an Art Nouveau-style border with curved corner cartouches each bearing the numeral '10'. A central oval vignette renders a letterpress view of a local railway station with industrial buildings, small figures on the platform, and a locomotive to the right; the legend 'ZEHN HELLER' arcs above the vignette, with 'Gemeinde Brunnenthal.' in a curved inscription below. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on cream paper, the back is framed by a geometric rectangular border with decorative corner elements, and carries header and footer panels each inscribed 'Zehn Heller' in Gothic script. The central field contains a block of Fraktur text recording the municipality's authorization to issue vouchers up to 50,000 Kronen, redeemable at the Gemeindekasse Brunnenthal between 1 and 15 December 1920, dated 'Brunnenthal, am 8. Mai 1920', with the printed signatures of the Vizebürgermeister and Bürgermeister, and an anti-counterfeiting warning at foot. |
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Brunnenthal is a small commune in Upper Austria, and this 10 Heller notgeld belongs to the vast wave of locally-issued emergency currency that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1921 — a direct consequence of the coin shortage that followed the dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy and the economic dislocation of the immediate postwar years. Municipal authorities across Austria, often with no banking infrastructure whatsoever, were authorized to print their own fractional notes to keep local commerce moving.
The two signatories, Johann Lorenz and Josef Salletmayer, were almost certainly local officials rather than banking figures — typical for village-level notgeld, where the mayor and a council member would authenticate by hand.