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10 Heller Eisenerz
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Eisenerz (Market Town of Eisenerz) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1920 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on a pale grey ground and carries a faint underprint of the spread-eagle emblem of the municipality. The entire surface is occupied by a justified block of text in German blackletter (Fraktur) script, set within a plain ruled border. An ornamental initial 'D' in a boxed cartouche opens the legal declaration. The designer's credit 'Entwurf Theodor Huber' appears in Roman type at the lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Die Marktgemeinde Eisenerz gibt auf Grund des Gemeinderatsbeschlusses vom 30. April 1920 Gutscheine bis zum Gesamtbetrage von K 45.000.- aus. Sie haftet für diese Verbindlichkeit mit ihrem ganzen beweglichen und unbeweglichen Vermögen, diesen Gutschein bis 31. Dezember 1920 in Zahlung zu nehmen und in der Zeit vom 16. bis 31. Dezember 1920 gegen persönliche Vorweisung bei der Gemeindekasse in gesetzlichem Bargeld einzulösen. Entwurf Theodor Huber |
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Eisenerz is an alpine mining town in Styria whose economy ran almost entirely on iron ore extraction — the Erzberg, the stepped open-pit mountain looming directly above the town, is one of the largest iron ore deposits in Central Europe and has been worked continuously since the Middle Ages. This note was issued in 1920 as Notgeld, part of the wave of locally printed emergency currency that flooded Austria after the collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small-denomination coinage effectively unavailable.
Theodor Huber's design credit is unusual for a 10 Heller piece — most low-value Notgeld from small Austrian municipalities were printed from generic stock layouts. The Jaksc reference JPR0169-10 places this firmly within the documented Styrian series.