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10 Heller Dunkelstein
| Issuer | Gemeinde Dunkelstein (Municipality of Dunkelstein) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown-orange Notgeld note with a central vignette of a domed church or public building rendered in fine line engraving, set against a guilloche-patterned background. The denomination numeral '10' appears in oval cartouches at both left and right flanks. The issuer name 'Gemeinde Dunkelstein' is inscribed across the upper portion in Gothic lettering, with the value legend 'Zehn Heller' in large script below it. |
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| Reverse lettering | Dieser Kassenschein der Gemeinde Dunkelstein über Zehn Heller wird über Beschluß des Gemeindeausschusses im Sinne der erfolgten Kundmachung von der Gemeinde bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. Der Bürgermeister 10 |
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Dunkelstein is a small settlement in Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The 10 Heller note from Gemeinde Dunkelstein falls within that sprawling 1920–1921 wave of Austrian municipal issues, when the central government's inability to supply small-denomination coinage forced even villages with negligible administrative capacity to print their own scrip.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0136-10 places it firmly in the documented Austrian Notgeld corpus, though surviving examples from Dunkelstein are infrequently offered — small-run village issues were rarely preserved in quantity once the Heller was retired.