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10 Heller Eben am Achensee
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eben am Achensee (Municipality of Eben am Achensee, Tyrol) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-brown and grey tones on a light ground, the obverse centres on a full-figure vignette of Saint Notburga (hl. Notburga) in traditional Tyrolean dress, her name inscribed below the image. Denomination cartouches bearing the numeral '10' and the abbreviation 'h' occupy the upper left and upper right corners, while the legend 'ZEHN HELLER' arches across the top in bold letterpress. The lower portion carries a guarantee text in German script, the issue date '1. März 1921', two manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister, and the print-run designation 'AUFLAGE 2' at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | ZEHN HELLER 10 h Die Gemeinde Eben a. Achensee haftet für die Einlösung des Scheines bis 1. März 1921. Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: hl. NOTBURGA AUFLAGE 2 |
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This is Notgeld — Austrian emergency municipal currency issued in the chaotic years following the collapse of the Habsburg empire, when chronic coin shortages forced thousands of towns and villages to print their own small-denomination scrip. Eben am Achensee is a tiny Alpine community on the southern shore of the Achensee in Tyrol; that a settlement of this size was issuing its own currency by 1921 speaks to how completely the postwar monetary system had broken down.
Wagner of Innsbruck handled a substantial volume of Tyrolean Notgeld printing during this period, supplying dozens of municipalities across the region.