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10 Heller Edlbach
| Issuer | Gemeinde Edlbach (Municipality of Edlbach) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gültig bis 1. Juli 1921 10 Heller Die Gemeinde Edlbach haftet für die Verbindlichkeit diesen Schein in gesetzlichen Bargelde einzulösen und hat hiefür eine eigene Deckungsrücklage bestellt. Der Gemeindevorsteher: Die Nachahmung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
| Reverse description | Printed in dark red on cream paper within a plain ruled border divided into a grid layout. The denomination numeral '10' appears in each of the four corners. The upper central panel bears the heading 'Notgeld der Gemeinde Edlbach' in Gothic blackletter. The large central field contains a four-line verse in ornate Gothic script. The lower margin carries the anti-counterfeiting warning, and the printer's imprint 'Norbertus-Druckerei Wien III.' is typeset at the foot outside the border. The validity date 'Gültig bis 1. Juli 1921' is repeated vertically along both side margins. |
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Edlbach is a tiny municipality in Upper Austria — the kind of place whose wartime and postwar currency is easily dismissed as a curiosity. But the Heller notgeld issued by Austrian communes in 1920 reflects a genuine monetary crisis: the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian krone system left small change essentially nonexistent, forcing hundreds of individual Gemeinden to print their own fractional emergency money. Edlbach was simply one of hundreds doing what the central authorities could not.
The Norbertus-Druckerei in Vienna's third district was a Catholic printing house connected to the Premonstratensian order, an unusual choice of contractor for municipal scrip.