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10 Heller Diersbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Diersbach (Municipality of Diersbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD 10 HELLER Gemeinde-Diersbach |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the reverse carries the full redemption text in German script lettering arranged centrally, stating that the Municipality of Diersbach in the Innviertel redeems this voucher, issued by council resolution of 16 May 1920, until 30 October 1920, for the amount of zehn Heller in legal tender. The denomination numeral '10' appears in each of the four corners within ruled square cartouches, and the flanking side panels repeat the ornamental foliage motif seen on the obverse. Below the main text, the roles of the Gemeinderat and Bürgermeister are identified, followed by three handwritten manuscript signatures. |
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Diersbach is a village in Upper Austria with a population that has never exceeded a few hundred. That it issued its own notgeld at all is unremarkable for 1920 — thousands of Austrian municipalities did the same after the postwar collapse of the crown made small coinage effectively disappear from circulation. What makes these hyperlocal issues interesting is precisely their administrative absurdity: a settlement too small to appear on most maps, issuing currency backed by nothing more than local goodwill and the expectation that the crisis would pass.
Austrian municipal notgeld of this period was typically printed in short runs by regional printers, often on thin stock prone to wear along fold lines.