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10 Heller Erlauf im Nibelungengau
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Erlauf im Nibelungengau (Market Town of Erlauf im Nibelungengau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0181a-10 |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress on buff paper, with a decorative border composed of multiple concentric rules and a dotted inner frame. At the top centre, an ornamental cartouche encloses the numeral '10' flanked by stylised arrow motifs; a matching cartouche at the bottom centre bears the word 'HELLER' in the same manner. The field carries the guarantee text and the anti-counterfeiting warning in serif type. |
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| Signature(s) | Joh. Schabauer (Vizebürgermeister) and Ignaz Mayer (Bürgermeister) |
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One of thousands of Austrian municipal emergency notes — Notgeld — issued in the chaotic period following the collapse of the Habsburg economy. Erlauf is a small market town on the Danube in Lower Austria, and like most issuing communities of this type, it printed these notes to address a genuine small-denomination coin shortage rather than any local banking ambition. The dual signature arrangement, with both Bürgermeister and Vizebürgermeister signing, was a deliberate legitimizing gesture — the town asserting institutional weight behind paper that had no legal tender status outside its own boundaries.