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10 Heller Eschenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eschenau (Municipality of Eschenau, Lower Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Eschenau 10 HELLER Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: |
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| Reverse lettering | Zehn 10 Heller Die Gemeinde Eschenau haftet für diesen Gutschein mit ihrem gesamten Vermögen und löst selben bis 31. Dezember 1920 in gesetzlichem Bargelde ein. Nachahmung wird gesetzlich bestraft |
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Eschenau is a small Lower Austrian village, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper after the First World War left Austria's small-denomination coinage effectively worthless. These Gemeindegeld notes — known collectively as Notgeld — filled a genuine transactional gap in rural areas where coins had been hoarded, melted, or simply stopped circulating. Eschenau's 10 Heller piece is catalogued under the Jaksc reference system specific to Austrian local issues, a classification Pick alone doesn't fully cover.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 in the catalog data is almost certainly a documentation or digitization error — Austrian municipal Notgeld of this type was universally a 1920–1922 phenomenon.