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10 Heller Eggelsberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eggelsberg (Municipality of Eggelsberg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 1 November 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Bicolour letterpress Notgeld note in blue and black, centred on a detailed vignette of the Eggelsberg parish church rendered in a fine illustrative style. The vignette is enclosed within an Art Nouveau-influenced decorative border incorporating stylised foliate and flame motifs at the corners and lateral panels. The denomination numeral '10' is set within a lower central panel of the frame, with the issuer inscription presented in bold block lettering along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER GEMEINDE EGGELSBERG in OB. OEST. |
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Eggelsberg is a small market town in Upper Austria, roughly twelve kilometers from Braunau am Inn. This 10 Heller note is one of the thousands of Austrian Gemeindenotgeld issues that flooded local circulation between 1919 and 1921, when a chronic shortage of small coinage — itself a consequence of postwar monetary disintegration — forced individual municipalities to print their own emergency fractional currency. Jos. Moser's print shop in Braunau am Inn served several of these neighboring communities, making regional attribution relatively straightforward for this series.