Catalog
10 Heller Eschenau
| Issuer | Gemeinde Eschenau (Municipality of Eschenau, Lower Austria) |
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| Reference(s) | Jaksc/Pick#JPR0186c-10 |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Eschenau 10 HELLER Der Bürgermeister: Der Vizebürgermeister: Der Gemeinderat: |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet on plain white paper, enclosed within an Art Nouveau-style decorative border composed of interlocking foliate and oval motifs at the corners and along each side. The denomination 'Zehn 10 Heller' is set in large display type at the top, below which a text block in roman typeface states the municipality's guarantee and redemption conditions, concluding with an anti-counterfeiting warning. |
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Eschenau is a small market town in the Pielach valley of Lower Austria, and like hundreds of similarly sized municipalities, it issued its own emergency small-change notes during the acute coin shortage that gripped Austria from roughly 1916 onward. These Notgeld pieces filled the gap left by the wartime hoarding and melting of metal coinage — a problem that persisted well past the armistice and into the early 1920s.
The Jaksch/Pick reference JPR0186c places this within the documented Lower Austrian municipal series, though surviving examples from Eschenau are genuinely uncommon. Small-run local issues like this were rarely printed in large quantities and often redeemed quickly once regional banking functions stabilized.