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10 Heller Frankenburg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Frankenburg (Municipality of Frankenburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Hellers (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the Ruine Hofberg (Hofberg ruins) rendered in a linear pen-and-ink style occupies the upper portion, set within a decorative border of small floral ornaments. Below the vignette, the denomination and issuer legend are inscribed in Gothic blackletter script, with the year 1920 centered beneath. The facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister (mayor) appears in the lower section, accompanied by the printer's imprint 'Josef Feichtingers Erben, Linz' and the notation '2. Aufl.' (second edition) at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ruine Hofberg Zehn 10 Heller. Gutschein der Gemeinde Frankenburg 1920 Der Bürgermeister: |
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Frankenburg am Hausruck, a small Upper Austrian market town, issued this Heller note during the postwar Notgeld wave that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1922. Central bank currency had effectively collapsed in purchasing power following the dissolution of the Habsburg empire, and thousands of municipalities scrambled to print their own small-denomination emergency money to keep local commerce moving. Josef Feichtingers Erben was a Linz commercial printing house — not a specialist security printer — which accounts for the relatively modest production quality typical of provincial Austrian Notgeld from this period.
The Jaksch/Pick reference places this among the documented Frankenburg issues, of which multiple denominations were authorized simultaneously.